Day: January 10, 2025

He regretted all the mistakes
he made in his life.
It wasn’t that he found religion
and felt sinful as hell.
It’s just that he wished he
could he do a rewind
and get a second chance
to do things better
with a more mature mind.
He could have done
so much better with
a second chance as a 2.0.
But life doesn’t hand out
second chances after
you’ve had your first chance
and make all your mistakes.
If we get a rewind with
reincarnation, maybe
that’s where you get
the second chances and
come back better and better
with each improved life.

Bob Boyd

If you are good with crowds of people,
of swarms of homo sapiens you have
to dodge and find your way around,
as if you were at a sporting event
trying to keep from being slammed into
by an oblivious person
or a random shopping cart,
then you’re better than me.

I assiduously try to avoid crowds
and dodging wandering people.
I go shopping later at night when
the swarms roll off to their homes
in their human-driven machines.

And I avoid events where humans
are as thick and as crowded
as sand in arid deserts
or on the shores of vast seas.

It’s not that I have Enochlophobia.
It’s just that I can’t stand
being cramped in spaces
with herds of my kind.
And what a relief it is
when I go shopping late at night
and the ubiquitous crowds
are finally dispersed.

Bob Boyd

Wickedness, wickedness, why so much in this old world.
I’m surprised the world doesn’t fall apart from it all
and float into space in pieces with the good and the wicked
screaming and dying and glued to it by gravity.
How the world keeps it together hosting so much evil
is a lifelong mystery to me.
Maybe the fact that daily many wicked people die,
balances the good and the evil out so much
that it eases earth’s burden of having to host so much evil.

Bob Boyd