It stood out on Craig's List
That weird ad listing a soul
offered up for sale to public
but no details on how to pay
other than the improbable to collect.
"I sell my soul to whoever can give me
the love of a woman good, pure and true
for all eternity your may keep it, unless love dies."
It made me wonder with longing
if the fool found his gold
or was handed by Satan's hand
thirty pieces of silver to buy
a soiled dove under red lights.
I crafted my own ad mentally over that day
seeking some way to pitch my own soul out
as bait for a woman of virtue and beauty.
But would any who would reply
have the love it would take
to redeem my tarnished soul back
into this shell, allowing love's return
or would she toss me aside?
I never knew, the words failed
and the ad was taken down
as souls are not legal tender
even on the web these days,
then again, who can truly say?
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