A Soul Retracts, Quietly Persisting in the Shadows

Migrating Below the Surface, monotype by artist Michelle Lindblom

A Soul

A deep conversation.

An intense look.

Seeing her for the first time

as the soul I knew before.

I lost her

to a world she thought she preferred

instead of the one into which she was born.

The world where she was loved unconditionally.

She left for an abyss

that takes the soul.

Spits it out.

Mani…