Day: November 25, 2024

I saw my beautiful first love 40 years later.
I hadn’t seen her since age 17 when we parted.
I was shocked to see her beauty was erased forever.
Aging had been incredibly cruel to her.
I almost shed a tear remembering how beautiful she was
when we were young and felt as though good looks were forever.
I could see in her sad eyes she was thinking the same about me,
remembering when she said I was so handsome
and was shocked to see what aging had done to me.

Bob Boyd

They felt they had carte blanche on always being right
despite the fact they were on the left.

They’d defend even the craziest notions their lackeys
put forth as undeniable truths.

Even when the notions were indefensible and idiotic,
they lined up like lemmings to support them.

They’d become more like a mindless cult
than critical thinking followers.

One day they controlled an entire country with their insanity
and wrecked it like an out of control wrecking ball.

Until sanity and reason overruled their harmful policies,
and they were exposed and tossed out of power.

Bob Boyd

He yearned for the limelight all his life
until he got it and his life darkened.
He never imagined his life would become
like living in a goldfish bowl with so
many people hounding and pestering him.
He never expected to be misquoted and
portrayed as a villain or an unfeeling fool.
After enough of the everpresent exposure
and the never ending invasions of his privacy,
he said screw it all and dropped out of the limelight
and basked in the freedoms of obscurity.

Bob Boyd