Day: November 30, 2024

Young people getting cancer constantly
in America now.

Many follow all the rules for
staying healthy and fit,

eating the right foods and
exercising daily.

Many theories have evolved
about this cancer plight.

It baffles me how with so many advances
in cancer treatments

and many fine physicians successfully
treating cancers everyday

that cancer still keeps spreading and
appears to be winning the war.

Bob Boyd

She fought the cold as well as she could
as it crept into her apartment day after day.
Because she couldn’t afford the heating bills,
she wrapped herself up in layers of clothing
which worked until the temperature dropped
below zero degrees and she began to freeze.
An old woman with thinning skin and sick,
she succumbed to hypothermia at age 86.
Alone and unmonied, she died because of
poverty and a lack of family or any help.
I believe this condition is not uncommon
among the many poor and alone elderly.

Bob Boyd

Marriage didn’t deliver what she thought it would.
At first it was exhilarating playing house with a husband,
but after a while it became boring and unfulfilling.
She felt trapped in a miserable relationship,
and she sensed her husband felt the same.
Tragic and sad so many marriages seem to
follow this same love forsaken love lost pattern.

Bob Boyd