Hard is the Darkness is a collection of poetry birthed from the wandering mind of Emma Steel, where her heart cracks; sometimes filling with the light of love, and sometimes the darkness of despair.These poems cover an eclectic range of love, pain, and social awareness that everyone may appreciate through her vulnerability with raw emotion.Unapologetically intense in some pieces, and in others, soothing to the soul, for a collection that blends the highs and lows of life. Emma Steel captures the underbelly of life in her poetry on the darker side with a collection that exposes the struggle that comes with dwelling on the negative, plumbing the depths, and stepping back from the edge.'Hard is the Darkness' is the sister piece to Softness comes with Light.