THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE

This is one of my favorite poems by Tupac and Nikki Giovanni - I truly feel like a rose that grew from concrete - Life is good / God is sooo Good - I hope you enjoy this poem as much as I do ............

[Tupac Shakur]

You try to plant something in the concrete, y'know what I mean? If it GROW, and the rose petal got all kind of scratches and marks, you not gon' say, "****, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from concrete" You gon' be like, "**** A rose grew from the concrete?!

Same thing with me, y'knah what I mean? I grew out of all of this Instead of saying, , he did this; he did this, “just be like, He grew out of that? He came out of that? “That’s what they should say, y'know what I mean?

All the trouble to survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty you know what I mean unbelievable lifestyle they gave me I’m just trying to make something..

[Nikki Giovanni]

When no one even cared the rose it grew from concrete keep in all these dreams proving nature's laws wrong it learned how to walk without having feet it came from concrete

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong it learned how to walk without having feet Funny it seems but, by keep in its dreams it, learned to breathe FRESH air Long live the rose that grew from concrete -grew-from-concrete- when no one else even cared No one else even cared. The rose that grew from concrete

Did you hear? Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong It learned to walk without having feet Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams it learned to breathe FRESH air Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else, even cared

[Nikki Giovanni]

Keeping all these dreams Proving nature's laws wrong It learned how to walk without having feet (to breathe the fresh air)It came from concrete (to breathe the fresh air)(to breathe the fresh air, to breathe the fresh air)

[Tupac Shakur]

You see you wouldn't ask why the rose that grew from the concrete had damaged petals. On the contrary, we would all celebrate its tenacity.
We would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the rose - this is the concrete - and these are my damaged petals. Don't ask me why, thank God , ask me how!

2PAC - THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE

 

I love this .....................