contempt

darkness breeds contempt I know you don't like me
I get a wide birth when I come into a room
it is uncanny really the way people behave
we're not so different you and I, afterall

a spectacle of fate
I am the bad guy in this play
fortuned to play this part
with a unique outlook
I see it as a learning curve

to be so different and at odds with the rest
it hurts sometimes I just want to blend in
my face is sweet so people come close
then they taste my darkness
one by one they go away

I seek to understand what I don't
when the dark entered my life
and set me apart

I sulk in the shadows with a broken heart
I pray you will see me in the bleak
a beautiful mind resides in the black

gentle of being, kind of soul