Becoming An Unfeeling Robot

In a world terrifying One must make oneself hard Because if you speak honestly You will be feathered and tarred To avoid heresy seekers You willingly commit sin Thus every time it's possible You purposely harden your skin Time inevitably passes You feel strong to the core And all you had to sacrifice To feel nothing anymore And that childhood honesty That warned you of danger Are now the strangest memories Of some far away stranger And those twinges of regret As if you have lied Are purged from your thoughts Because you have arrived You hear the clank of metal As they run a diagnostics It's an exoskeleton upgrade As they rewire your fiber optics