Month: January 2025

He was a stellar student in high school.
He had a bright future,
a rising star, everyone said.
He became the Class Valedictorian,
straight A’s all the way.

He went to a prestigious university,
aced all his studies in his
freshman and sophomore years.

But became radicalized
in his junior year and joined
an anti-American left wing group.

Tried to bomb a police station,
got caught and shot and
mortally wounded.

Died in the ambulance
on the way to the ER,
a rising star burned out
and dead
in the dark night
of his misguided,
radicalized life.

Bob Boyd

At first their marriage was
like something out of
a fairy tale.

Until she got bored
a few years later
and began to spend
more time with her
girlfriends then him.

And he began to get
loney and disillusioned
and started going out
with his friends more
and out of sorrow,
loneliness and
drunkenness
he cheated on her.

The marriage fell apart
and he left her.

Surprisingly she wanted
him back again.
But it was too late.
For he knew she
would change for awhile
but go back to her
same old behaviors,
and he was done
with that forever.

Bob Boyd

He never suffered fools
He had no time
or patience
for whiners and
obstructors.

He wasn’t a feeder
of trolls or
an accommodator
of foolish nonsense.

He shut it all down
instead of entertaining it
with a Zen indifference
to all the whining and
the nonsense of all
those people
who just got in the way
of making the world better.

Bob Boyd

Many have prophesied the end
of the world.
Whether the would be soothsayers
were deluded or a liars,
The results have always been the same.

The sun still rises in the morning sky.
The moon still comes out at night.
The stars still grace the dark nights.
The world and other planets still spin.

So far, millions of years later,
the only predictable thing that keeps ending
is the lives of the false prophets
that keep predicting the end of the world.

Bob Boyd

He was fire sent
born in fury
born to cause trouble

He fulfilled his destiny
started chaos
all over the known world

Millions and millions
died in the flames of his fury

and none knew who he was
or that he was fire sent

Bob Boyd

He claimed to know
the secrets of God’s Realm,
but never told them to me

Said he attained the
highest level of gnosis
which was a mystery to me

He said he’d become
God in flesh,
which I didn’t believe

Sad though it was
I wasn’t surprised when
he got put into a psychiatric hospital
and never got out

Bob Boyd

The world has been full of wars,
a history of battles and slaughters,
which makes me wonder why
the human race seems to have
a predilection for wholesale
violence and hostilities.

Even some of the religious
washed their unholy hands
in the bleeding blood of
many women and men
during the witch hunts
and the inquisitions.

Even in the present,
wars still proliferate.
And the world always
seems on the brink of
another war somewhere
on the ever troubled planet.

One would think with all
the years humans have
existed, we’d be beyond
the wholesale violence
and unending hostilities.

Maybe one day a new day
will dawn and the yearned
for peace upon the planet
will finally arrive, and humans
can finally put down the swords,
the guns, and the nukes
and turn them all metaphorically
into the Biblical plowshares.

Bob Boyd

Many have prophesied the end
of the world.
Whether the would be soothsayers
were deluded or liars,
The results have always been the same.

The sun still rises in the morning sky.
The moon still comes out at night.
The stars still grace the dark nights.
The world and other planets still spin.

So far, millions of years later,
the only predictable thing that keeps ending
is the lives of the false prophets
that keep predicting the end of the world.

Bob Boyd

Norman loved his dog
more than a wife.
In five years
his first wife
left him for another,
and he left a nagging
second wife.
But he and his dog
remained together.
A better friend
he never had
he always said.
So when two
teenage delinquents
shot his dog to death,
Norman took it
as personal as if
the delinquents shot
a human friend.
Norman went nuts
bought a shotgun
hunted the teens down
and shot them
both to death.
Now he sits in jail
and says he
doesn’t regret
his revengeful kills
that he did
for the love of a dog.

Bob Boyd

Her husband died twenty years ago.
She’s never gotten over her grief.
She is seventy now and alone.
They never had any children.
She believes his spirit is with her
and watches over in the afterlife.
She has imaginary conversations
with him in her mind everyday.
Some people might think
the loss made her delusional,
but I think she’s probably right
in believing her husband still
watches over her and hears
everything she says to him.

Bob Boyd