Love Poem: From the Streets (For Tupac Shakur Contest Sponsored By: Raul Moreno)

From the Streets (For Tupac Shakur Contest Sponsored By: Raul Moreno)

He 
Looks like
A hoodlum?
Tattooed and hard –
Judge not the surface!
Be like God, look inside.
Let love flow; watch joy abide.
Tupac’s rhyming brightens sorrows.
Rapping beats to famed masterpieces.
Singing the wisdom he learned from the streets. 

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
June 7, 2010
Poetic form:  Etheree