She looks in the mirror and still sees
a beautiful young woman,
even though she’s eight and eighty.
Old age has distorted her mind;
she’s unable to see the truth,
the wrinkled, old woman she’s become.
She thinks she’s still in her twenties,
young, carefree and beautiful,
like she was in her youth.
Maybe she’s better off than
if she knew the truth and saw
the dying, old woman in her mirror.
Bob Boyd
For years he had
a crush on her.
She’d seem interested
then push him away.
A year would pass,
he’d try again.
She’d seem interested
then push him away.
After about three years
of his yearly pursuits,
he realized his inane,
prolonged crush made
a fool out of him.
And when he saw her
a year after his folly
completely ceased,
he wondered what
he had seen in her
to squander his heart
on her for all
those wasted years.
Bob Boyd
When she was nice,
she was sweet.
But then she’d
go psycho,
and her demons
would come out.
She’d scream and
she’d shout,
swear and attack
him.
He hung in there
with her,
thought he could
change her.
But she changed
him
when she drove
a knife into
his chest one
night
and changed him
into a ghost.
Bob Boyd
Day runs into night
night runs into day
sun during the day
moon at night
light and darkness
time speeding up
faster and faster
people getting
older and older
graves opening
for their corpses
soon skeletons
eventually all dust.
Bob Boyd
She was always uncommonly nice
and often angelic.
Perhaps that’s why God took her to heaven
at age seven.
Bob Boyd
I believe it’s plausible that all these cryptids
could be creatures coming out of other dimensions.
And some translucent, like the alien in the movie
Predator.
This could explain why with over 5,600 alleged
Bigfoot sightings as of 2023,
no corpses or creditable proof has been found,
and why some claim he disappears.
It’s also why I find that theory plausible.
Bob Boyd
When I was a teenager
back in the sixties,
I knew a kid who liked
to thumb rides and get
picked up by a gay guy
to beat the shit out of
him.
It made no sense to me.
Why intentionally go out
of your way to harm
people with different
sexual orientations?
Now I think he had gay
tendencies he was
uncomfortable with and
beat up gays to try to
beat the gayness out
of himself.
I only saw him once,
and I wonder if he
tried to beat up the
wrong gay and got
killed or put in prison.
Bob Boyd
I saw a woman on YouTube
complaining about men
who don’t chase her.
You may think that’s not
unreasonable.
I see it as an egotistical
game some women play.
And I’ve never been one
to grovel for a woman
or to play foolish games.
Bob Boyd
Pink seems to be a woman’s color.
I wonder why that is.
Why not yellow or green,
for example.
Is there something in their DNA
that predisposes them to the
color pink?
I probably could do some easy
research to find out,
but I prefer to remain perplexed
by this mystery.
And I really think women
look great in the color pink.
Bob Boyd
Everyday someone is born.
Everyday someone dies.
Ever wonder what the
point of it all is?
Is it a revolving wheel
of rebirths, a forever
heaven or an eternal
hell?
I don’t like either choice.
I’d rather, as some NDEs
suggest, live forever in
unconditional love.
Or, maybe better, live
forever with an eternal
romantic love.
Bob Boyd
He murmured to the plants
in his garden
as if they could hear him.
I wonder if he ever heard them
murmuring back to him.
Bob Boyd
Many old people
are alone near the
end of their lives,
even those with
children.
The stalwart among
them don’t bemoan
their isolation.
They find ways to
enjoy their final days
by themselves or
with others.
Bob Boyd
I hate how one’s life is so unpredictable
that in a moment it can be over –
a woman murdered by the man who
claimed he loved her;
a tree limb falls on a woman walking
through a peaceful park and ends her life;
a sudden and unexpected heart attack
kills a high school athlete;
a single car accident that happens in an
instant on a highway, killing people;
a shooter in a fast food restaurant
shoots six people to death.
Sometimes I think it’s like a miracle that
most of us escape those sudden and
unpredictable deaths.
And I hope you get through this life
as one of us.
Bob Boyd
I have come to see romantic love
as a bad investment of one’s heart.
Along with the initial euphoria that
doesn’t last,
at some point, weeks, months
or years, the love may not last.
And like a bad investment with money,
you’re squandered the currency of your heart.
Bob Boyd
From what I read about a theory
called False Vacuum Decay,
if it is true, the universe could
vanish in a moment.
Everything, you, me, planets,
worlds, countries, oceans, gone.
Sure, it sounds terrifying, but I
see it the same as dying.
Like the universe being gone
in a moment,
in a moment the you, that
you identify as, is gone.
And I’m okay with both,
the universe or me
vanishing in an instant;
maybe because
I’ve lived a long life,
and I’m good with dying.
Bob Boyd