501 SOUL MATE—WHERE FORTH ART THOU?

Upon hearing:
I found my soul mate
My cheshire smile appears
What inspires this smile?
Listening to naiveté speaking aloud

In truth
Soul mates are not found
Soul mates develop
Why is that true?
Because a synonym for soul mate is trust

And trust is not found trust develops
Trust deepens or lessens
Depending upon whether a relationship
Can weather
A series of difficult tests

Though every psyche is many layered
Love smites us blind to complexities
Which always develop for this reason:
The power of attraction is so magnetic as to
Sweep our spirits into a swirling state of emotional wonder

And if you ask why we are naive, repeatedly
I'd reply:
At first, we gratify each other's unmet needs
However, with time
Both personas begin to unravel

And as the naked psyche
Is less than pretty
Eventually, every relationship is sorely tested
Thus proving it is naive to believe ...
Soul mates can be found

If it's true that every relationship is tested, repeatedly
Then common sense suggests we need to answer this question:
Can you and your partner both muster the courage to look within?
As you shall see, in the absence of self discovery, bonds of intimacy
Which are based in self trust, begin to crack in half

When one musters the courage
To look in and identify hidden vulnerabilities
While the other does not
One seeks truths while the other runs away
So the possibility of becoming soul mates fails to develop

As insight suggests that
Hoping to find a soul mate is futile
Common sense suggests that
Soul mates work toward deepening
One’s own sense of self-trust

Why?  For this reason;
If birds of a feather fly together
Then the path we each carve for ourselves
Is bound to intersect with the path of others
Who set a high value upon self discovery, as well

And thus, on the up side, if your heart is hurting
Here is why I believe you may be less alone
Than you might surmise on your own:
Tis true that hearts, which have experienced depths of loneliness
May not recognize love signals when they pop up

So if thee proves a truth seeker with the courage to look in ...I believe you are made of 'the right stuff'
That's necessary to develop a relationship
With another truth seeker, whose inner strengths
Long to hold hands with yours through thick and thin ...

Whoops—here's another insight that just popped out of my mind:
Though two people, who ignore self discovery
May exist, peaceably, side by side ...
Absence of disagreement doth not make soul mates of this pair
And here is why that's true:

When a couple lives together, peaceably, but self discovery is nil
One submits all sense of self respecting, personal power to the other
Suggesting that peaceful co-existence depends upon one brain usurping control
Over both thought processing centers—and when
Harmony depends upon subjugation, connective bonds are not healthy

At times we each fly with the flock; at times we each soar on our own
Insight suggests that while seeking one's soul mate
We must fly high and low while developing the courage to look within
And once our wing spans have had sound reason to expand
We'll connect with he or she who has developed ‘the right stuff’, as well