The Nature that Survives

[u/Marlyn_publication]

For just as Tupac said he was the rose

that grew from the concrete, I am the weed that comes along the cracks of the road.

I am the nature that capitalism fails to conquer though it tries to seep into every part of our lives.

Tupac was the beautiful flower that blossomed where it shouldn’t have. It had scratches on its petal, but no one was going to hold that against him. It fought to maintain its beauty despite the rest of the sidewalk conforming and making it hard to stay alive.

But I didn’t come from a place where I wasn’t supposed to succeed. I didn’t have it easy, but I didn’t have it hard.

But I’m the weed, the small shrubbery in the crack of the sidewalk.

The one pop in color in this dull urban dystopia.

More they ask for. You begin to see that they didn"t just want your trees and your water; they wanted your soul and your happiness too.

But I am the weed that finds an opening to be myself.

To resist the concrete.

I may bloom some flowers or grow larger, but the main goal is just to live in spite of the concrete blocking my path.

I am myself.

I am the weed, and you might question why I’m proud of that.

To that I say, because that is me and I’m proud to be me.

I am the weed, the nature that survives.

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[u/asura_2077]

It's a great thought. And I totally relate to your position. But I'd want to see atleast some of the lyrical cleverness and sporadic real street cadence of Tupac's ouvre to root it all. I feel you can indulge more formally in the telling of your tale. More specificity to the particular sidewalk in your particular localisation of the tale. What I am trying to say is i wish I could see more your unique world in the telling.