The Soul She Sold
By Anonymous
Each month, the YU Observer sends a call to YU students for poetry submissions following a specific theme. This month, the theme was “Catharsis”, and we are featuring the anonymously written piece, ‘The Soul She Sold’. Other submissions of honorable mention have been published as well.
It was different before.
I remind myself of the days
When you had a soul
As we laughed,
And laughed,
And laughed on the couch.
The laughter
And the soul
Were pressed from you.
I mourn them both.
You promised to tell
Their truth
Their whole truth
Nothing but their truth.
But isn’t there more truth than that?
Isn’t the truth
That is not theirs
Truth nonetheless?
The fact is,
Facts do care about my feelings —
Even if you do not.