The Search
Never Ends
A dense forest
of loneliness
lies deep in
the heart
of the one who
is continually seeking
for the perfect
love or friend
and even on
finding possibilities,
one, some, they
are dismissed
as not quite
the thing.
Perhaps no
mutual click is heard
the heart's
bells have not rung together
no bursts of
"this is one
or the
one", a companion confidante.
Perhaps the
lonely heart
unknowingly
closes
to special
connections
fearing the
opening up,
the sharing of
a bond that allows for
an addictive
harmony.
But let me tell
you
these are spicy
connections,
worth finding,
benefits surpassing
any time spent
in the continuation
compatible,
peaceable
united feelings
of
having known
each other forever
or wishing we
had.
Familiar,
similar
forever
sympathetic
we feel each
other's pain
and give up
ideas of hiding
or competing,
relaxing
in the
acceptance of
a true, blue,
friend.
"True blue" is an idiom that means "loyal and unwavering in one's opinions or support for a cause." It derives from the blue cloth made at Coventry, England, where the dyers had a reputation for producing material that didn't fade with washing (it remained "fast" or "true"). Thus the phrase "as true as Coventry blue." In 1670 John Ray, in "A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs," commented that "Coventry had formerly the reputation for dying of blues; insomuch that true blue became a Proverb to signifie one that was always the same and like himself." The literal "fast" alluded to "steadfast" due to the Covenanters, 17th-century Scottish Presbyterians who swore to uphold the National Covenant and oppose the rule of James IV of Scotland, who wore blue; those who unequivocally supported the cause were called "true blue." (Samuel Butler referred to this denomination in his 1663 satirical epic "Hudibras": For his Religion it was Fit / To match his learning and wit; / 'Twas Presbyterian true blue.
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