Day: January 9, 2025

They called him the son of Satan
and god almighty he seemed like it.
He had the face of an alter boy
or a wholesome boy next door.
That’s what sixty women thought that
he caught in his net of torture and death.
He did unspeakably abominable things
to all those women for days and hours
before slowly slicing them all to death.

He got sentenced to many lifetimes
in prison when he should have
been given a death sentence.
An avenging prisoner, the brother
of one of the woman he savaged,
gave him the death sentence he
deserved by stabbing him to death
sixty times with a handmade shiv.

Bob Boyd

It’s hard to imagine
how there were the Thuggee
in India who strangled people to death
seemingly without any guilt,
supposedly for the goddess Kali.

They are thought to have killed
up to 30,000 people,
strangling them all to death
and stealing their money and goods.

I supposed they covered up any guilt
with the excuse they were killing people
as offerings to their imagined god
instead of purely for murder
and for theft.

Bob Boyd

Cheerful, happy people
they had what he wanted
the peace and the joy
he was missing
in his unfulling life.

His girlfriend had left him.
his life seemed to lack purpose.
He wanted what those people had.

They said their leader was God,
and he seemed like he might be
with his charisma and his holiness
And dressed in a robe like a holy man.

Six months after he joined them
he saw they were only a cult
following a charlatan in a robe.
He left them and met a new girlfriend
and found more peace and joy in her
than he ever did in the cult.

Bob Boyd