"I am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca / Classwork

The emotion that "I am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca expresses is love. An example of this is in the poem the writer says "I have nothing to give to you-except love" and it also states that love is all they need. In addition another quote from the poem is “it’s all I have to give, and all anyone needs to live, and to go on living inside, when the world outside no longer cares if you live or die; remember I love you”. That’s why the emotion of this poem is loving.