My Archived Poetry Blog With 3,750 poems
Many enter our lives
Most drift away
Passing passengers
In our ride through life
Never see them again
Sometimes I wonder
What happened
To some of them
Are they dead
Are they alive
Did they survive
The bumps
The potholes
On the roads
The streets
The highways
Of this
Ever changing
Life
Bob Boyd
Accursed nightmares
why do you intrude
into gentle souls’ dreams?
Worse, why do you intrude
into many souls’ lives:
Little girls sold or kidnapped
into prostitution.
Innocent young women
raped and murdered.
Wives and girlfriends
beaten and killed.
Oh Lord above
why are there so
many nightmares in
this life?
Bob Boyd
He never won true love’s lottery
always picked the wrong women
or more correctly they picked him
years of broken hearts
and broken promises
disappointments and failures
yet fool for love that he was
he kept playing love’s lottery
never getting a winning ticket
of real and lasting love
at 86 still held out hope
couldn’t let go of the dream
of winning the mega lottery prize
died alone and unloved
Bob Boyd
She was just seventeen and bursting with promise,
an all A’s student got a scholarship at Radcliff.
Gave up the scholarship and the prestigious college
to marry her farmer boyfriend and become what some of today’s young women disparagingly call a trad wife.
Some understandably thought she was a fool
to throw away a free ride to Radcliff.
Some said young love never lasts.
Somehow she knew in her young heart
everything she needed, everything she could ever
want, was in being with him.
He felt the same, and they both knew that
that theirs was a true and lasting love.
Sometimes when you know you know.
Sometimes you are right.
Some never really find true love or are
unwilling to hold onto it, pass it by,
or really commit to it when they have
a chance at it. Some make wrong choices
in love all their lives.
Some choose a career, prestige, and more money
over a total commitment above all things
and distractions to true love in this passing life.
She helped her husband tend the animals and raise
the crops on his farm, had two kids, a boy and a girl.
Never regretted giving up her scholarship to Radcliff.
Led a long and happy life with sufficient money
and material things. And more importantly true love.
Bob Boyd