If there really are soulmates, they’re disappointingly
elusive for many, maybe most.

So many people never find them. They think they
have, but then things go bust,

and they realize their soulmates were illusionary,
and they are alone again.

My fervent hope is soulmates are real and
waiting for us in the afterlife

with a fairytale ending and the happily in love
ever after.

But more likely I’m being foolish, and there
probably aren’t any soulmates, only illusions.

Bob Boyd