A Lass I Lost

Riddle me this How is it that one loses their soulmate? I mean, from across the universe You unite Amid all the signs of auspicious coincidence And then after years of making such union Familiar, known but ultimately mundane You just as unexpectedly part. Is it a cruel mistake Or the fortuitous unfolding of one’s twisted fate? Such is life with its volumes and chapters Full of stories Each one complicated by myriad tangents As each character interacts Their own paths expanding and entangling In labyrinths Layer upon layer A tangled web of blue. And so we meet in recognition And then part, to go where on our individual ways? Some things are just not for us to know, But what can be known, as time continues Is that the ties that bind Are never ever really loosed. And in this there is solace and continuity Of souls forever mated and bound Despite our twisted fates Until next our labyrinthine ways connect. Life goes on, after all, forever and forever Within us and without us. (11/2/24)