tenderness everybody loves and can be loved they say that opposites define each other but i've learned a kind of tenderness beyond the hardness of everyday tenderness is touch with skin with voice with eyes tenderness is not what but how and because of this the softness i have received has been wrapped in the most broken and stained and aching sandpaper i've come to resent the harshness of functioning you have to force yourself together to seem successful and it's unnatural i'm sorry it's not right the things they want us to be it's cold the most beautiful people i know don't know they don't know lala said it once |