Who understands me but me the author Jimmy Santiago Baca. this poem is mostly is a this person is in a dark place where there no water and they can't see treetops no more. When they say that in the poem it means they must not feel welcome anywhere they go they be in a death bed or in prison. The person feels like he /she is trapped in something and never getting out if it. They feel pain and disaster
The speaker in the story is saying that he is lonely and he wants to escape from where he is and he doesn’t want to do what he doing. My prediction of the speaker is a prisoner and he doesn't feel right. He said they painted the windows black and he cant see the