Is it a feeling, or is it a fact? ~ Julie Trudeau

When I’ve not eaten a minimal amount,
when the body requires food, that hunger is.
It’s real. When I “deserve” a treat, when my need
rises to a roar because of the cruelty of the world…
When I punish the woman who told me I’d had enough
by hiding away to eat a whole cake…
When boredom drives my car to the drive-through window
and the clerk already knows what kind of Blizzard I want
or hands me the apple fritter or turnover…
That “hunger” bears no reality, holds no truth,
is a lie, a feeling masquerading as a fact.