Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Okay, so this is a poem written by Jimmy Santiago Baca, and I wrote the music to go behind a lot of his poetry in our film.

It's called Redemption Time. and this is like the redemptive

moment at the end where jimmy gets out so the film has like you know 10 to 12 different like

episodes or 70 minutes and each one of them address like different themes of manhood trauma

and all these kinds of things but this is like the uh, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the redemptive moment.

So, uh, I thought it would be cool to have, uh, shock.

I read the poem and try to do my best to, to kind of truly on it.

You know, thank you.

I'll try to render it here with just the fell, so, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah. fell, so, you know? When I came out of prison, I didn't have a plan to go back to crime.

I came out of prison with one gift, and I'm about to tell you what that gift is. Not a gun, not a criminal, but a gift.

I'm offering this poem.

I'm offering this poem to you since I have nothing else to give.

Keep it like a warm coat when the winter comes to cover you.

Or like a pair of thick socks that cannot fight through.

I love you.

I got nothing else to give you.

So it's a pot full of yellow corn to warm your belly in the winter.

It's a scarf to wrap up around your head on windy days.

I love you.

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