{"id":2970,"date":"2025-11-24T05:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/never-found-the-one\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:23:28","slug":"never-found-the-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/never-found-the-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Found the One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right from high school I dreamed of finding<br>\nthe one, the soulmate, the perfect love for me<\/p>\n<p>my dream was to meet her in high school<br>\nfall in love with her, get married  <\/p>\n<p>be the fairy tale happily ever after<br>\ninstead I got the happily never after, lol<\/p>\n<p>a while back I thought since many people<br>\nlike me don\u2019t find the one, the eternal soulmate<br>\nin this uncertain, often unlucky in love life<\/p>\n<p>maybe they find their soulmates<br>\nin the glorious, unimaginable afterlife<br>\nnow I\u2019m not so sure, maybe romantic love is<br>\nsuperseded by unconditional love<br>\nin the unseeable, the unfathomable<\/p>\n<p>I believe what Elizabeth Kubler Ross<br>\nsaid, \u201cLook forward to your transition.<br>\nIt\u2019s the first time you will experience<br>\nunconditional love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I like the thought of that<br>\nI believe she and the NDEers \u2013 who<br>\nexperienced what they call Source and the<br>\nunconditional love \u2013 are right<\/p>\n<p>but if I had my choice, I\u2019d rather be<br>\nwith the soulmate never found in this life<br>\nwith her finally in a heavenly paradise<br>\nheart aglow, souls in sync, happy forever<br>\nbored with each other, falling out of love \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>never.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/never-found-the-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}