You don’t get soft love from me
It was burned on the stone of harsh words
And painful abandoned moments
Scorched earth
Salted ground
You don’t get soft love from me
It doesn’t mean it isn’t love
It is in the foxhole
In the midst of your fires
burning with you
You don’t get soft love from me
There aren’t enough moments left
in this heart of flesh
which is no longer stone
because my small ones need my soft
You don’t get soft love from me
My joy is more weapon than elixir
A bullet in my arsenal
And peace that looks like hardness