Softness & Darkness

What good is a heart like mine
in all this hardness?

​There is no place for soft things here.
​It doesn't fit in.
​I feel it not fitting in;
Being bigger than it should;
Showing around the edges
of my exoskeleton cladding:
betraying me.

I am too soft inside
for safety.
My heart is too black
for goodness.

​I am all softness and darkness
​inside & out.

from 'Soft' in My Heart