Like a Biblical quote about young men having
visions and old men having dreams
I’m an old man who has a lot of dreams,
figuratively and literally
for example, I had a dream, as in an imagining,
that maybe I could be with an ex wife in the afterlife
and unlike with the marriage on earth
everything would work out right
the perfect harmony, the everlasting love
despite our being incompatible in this earthly existence
her being too much of an extrovert
me being more of an introvert
me being of a deep, spiritual/philosophical nature
her unable to relate to any of that
and besides we’d still probably be incompatible
not right for each other even in the afterlife
then I thought about how in the afterlife
there may be no romantic love
all unconditional love beyond
the I’ll love you if you love me
that thought saddens me a bit
maybe I’m too much a romantic
but I’d like to see romantic love endure forever.
Bob Boyd