Day: December 11, 2024

Love Never After

In the beginning he couldn’t get
enough of her.

He thought about her every
minute of every hour
of every day.

He couldn’t bear to be
away from her.

He felt like he couldn’t
ever live without her.

After they finally got married
and a few years passed,
and he got used to her
and she got used to him –

he argued all the time with her
and he liked it when she
was away from him,
and all the first love feelings
faded away forever.

Pity romantic love sometimes
ends like this.

Bob Boyd

The mongrel mutt sprang into my lap
wagging his tail and
looking at me like I was a celebrity.

The pampered pedigree canine
ignored me and
disdained me like I was a peasant.

Some dogs are just like disdainful
rich people and
the more welcoming poor.

Bob Boyd

He’s brighter than I ever imagined.
I thought he was just a comic,
but he was much more than that,
an IQ through the stratosphere,
an incredibly adept wordsmith.

And he had more knowledge of
more things than I’d imagined.

He was like the comic book
cover of an abundance of
unlimited mundane and
rare exoteric knowledge.

Bob Boyd

every day tears fall
all over the world
like a global monsoon

the tears flow from
a cosmos of numberless hearts
a universe of endless sorrows

loved ones murdered
loved ones killed in wars
loved ones taken from
this world far too young
from terminal diseases
and many more tragedies
and unexpected losses
of lives dear to
all those people
afflicted with
the downpours
of countless tears
will grieve endlessly

from sorrows they never
expected to fall
into their carefree lives

bob boyd