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.