Letter to Pac (Tupac Shakur)
Dearest Fellow Warrior, From the day I heard your voice I knew that my life had changed. Your voice spoke to my soul and then my heart. I was a 13 year old girl who had experienced unpleasurable pain. Molestation, abandonment, rejection, betrayal; a life I never expected. I had already escaped death three times; at birth with viral meningitis and then two electrical house fires. Yet I continued on because it was all that my spirit knew. I felt I was all alone until that one faithful day, when I heard this song called “Brenda’s Got a Baby”. I remembered how hearing you tell Brenda’s story reminded me of my own. The strength in your voice gave me hope to carry on. I had to hear more from this new rapper that society had labeled a gangster. It began to make sense.. the path I was on and the one you were currently within. Although our lives were quite different they were one in the same. Parallel living is what we were experiencing. I began to realize that I knew you,...