I wrote this poem about a week or two ago in the middle of the night because I couldn’t sleep.Today when I was watching the show, “Scandal” I thought about how this poem is fitting for the episode I was watching which is about forbidden love. I call any relationship with a taken or married person, forbidden love according to the rules or norm of society. In the episode, one of the main character said something along the line of,” I was a coward not to wait for you to come along.” He is basically telling her that she is his soul mate and he regretted not “waiting” for her. He in a sense has given up on his dream girl because he didn’t think she existed. After he is married and has kids, his soul mate shows up but he is obligated to stay in his relationship. What would you do if you found your “soul mate” but they were already taken? How long would you wait for the right person? Do people settle for the next best thing because they think they will never find their ideal mate? I think as we get older and wiser, this matter of love gets more complicated and not easier. It’s not a simple matter of black or white, right or wrong. I wrote this poem to express the complication of love.
Love is blind
to reason
to morals
to time,
to anything except bringing two lost soul mates together.
Love is magical
it’s the one beautiful illusion we all fall for,
where there’s no room for logic or reason
just emotions, connections, and passion
consuming us like wildfire coursing through our veins.
Love is what we pray for, live for,
fight for, and die for.
It is the fairytale we secretly believe in.
There is an old Chinese legend that says, “There is an invisible red thread connecting those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstance The thread may stretch or tangle, but never break”. This is a very good description/concept of soul mates and the bond, the “thread” that holds them together. What I love about this quote is that it can be applied to your romantic or platonic relationships with people. Sometimes the people we meet in our lives are so random, but nevertheless significant. Maybe we are meant to meet them at a time in our lives when we need them for something. That something may not be monumental, but it can be something as simple as an affirmation of who we are and what we want in life. Even the most negative people or event can teach us a lesson about life and about ourselves if we care to look. Yes, I believe things happen for a reason. What that reason is depends on what stage you are in life. All these things change over time, nothing and no one remains the same… and that is the beauty or tragedy of life. Reminds me of Robert Frost’s poem:
Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold. / Her early leaf’s a flower, / But only so an hour. / Then leaf subsides to leaf, / So Eden sank to grief. / So dawn goes down to day, / Nothing gold can stay.
Do you believe in soul mates? Do you believe that the people we meet are not so random?
"An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break." –An ancient Chinese belief" Author: Unknown
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