You found your freedom
Through incarceration
Prison walls and prison guards
And steely cold metal bars
Your conviction became your conviction
Your story my inspiration
You can keep a man in chains
But you can't keep him from freeing his mind
From reaching someone
He'll never be able to touch
And light radiates
Behind your words
Fiery purple imagination
Images of thoughts and feeling
And how you found your freedom
Behind penitentiary walls
Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 3:49 PM UTC
You found your freedom
Through incarceration
Prison walls and prison guards
And steely cold metal bars
Your conviction became your conviction
Your story my inspiration
You can keep a man in chains
But you can't keep him from freeing his mind
From reaching someone
He'll never be able to touch
And light radiates
Behind your words
Fiery purple imagination
Images of thoughts and feeling
And how you found your freedom
Behind penitentiary walls
Jimmy Santiago Baca. An amazing poet, with an amazing story.
