Right from high school I dreamed of finding
the one, the soulmate, the perfect love for me

my dream was to meet her in high school
fall in love with her, get married

be the fairy tale happily ever after
instead I got the happily never after, lol

a while back I thought since many people
like me don’t find the one, the eternal soulmate
in this uncertain, often unlucky in love life

maybe they find their soulmates
in the glorious, unimaginable afterlife
now I’m not so sure, maybe romantic love is
superseded by unconditional love
in the unseeable, the unfathomable

I believe what Elizabeth Kubler Ross
said, “Look forward to your transition.
It’s the first time you will experience
unconditional love.”

I like the thought of that
I believe she and the NDEers – who
experienced what they call Source and the
unconditional love – are right

but if I had my choice, I’d rather be
with the soulmate never found in this life
with her finally in a heavenly paradise
heart aglow, souls in sync, happy forever
bored with each other, falling out of love …

never.

Bob Boyd