Charade

Blueprinted by nature for a binary
existence we every one of us
with rare exceptions yearn to find
one we will recognize as 
indispensable to our happiness
in life, a soul mate, a shining star
in the firmament of human pleasure
someone who will cherish us and
companion us always and forever
an aspirational search motivating
young and old, male and female
yet if each is unprepared to recognize
in the other a spirit and mind unlike
their own yet compatible with no
requirement to submit to total
immersion rejection is imminent
in a social culture where gratification
must be instant and unqualified
the receiver entitled, the giver not.
Entitlement has an unfortunate habit
of spurning accommodation while
disappointment engenders soul
destroying resentment moving
steadily toward rejection, an 
opportune time for loneliness to
seal the breach of psychic abandon.
Shallow love meant for self not
another heralds hollow desolation.