Day: December 8, 2024

Seeing dead bodies
Seeing mutilated bodies
Seeing tortured bodies
Seeing battered and
burned dead children
Breaking the news to
families of a
murdered loved one,
being the bearer of
the worst news
you could give them
and feeling their pain
and sorrow personally.
These are some of
the serious duties
of a police officer

Bob Boyd

Once a police officer said to me,
“I don’t trust anyone.”

I thought that was extreme
until i watched many true crime shows.

Then I realized why he felt that way
and why it was justified.

Priests, ministers, doctors, lawyers, politicians
have all committed homicides.

Of course I’m not say all those professionals
turned out to be murderers.

But, astonishingly, some, perhaps many,
over the years – have.

Then there are many seemingly nice people
seemingly incapable of killing anyone
who have killed or had others killed.

Now I can see that were I a policeman and
seen what that policeman saw over the years,
I wouldn’t trust anyone either.

Bob Boyd

I don’t know exactly why
but I love the way she rolls her eyes.
She rolls them when she’s annoyed.
She rolls them when she dances.
And all her eye rolls tickle ineffable
joy in me everytime she does them.
Her eye rolls are better than a pint
of the tastiest ice cream I’ve ever had
and more heart warning than a hearty meal.

Bob Boyd