Day: May 8, 2025

count all the grains of sand in the deserts of the world
count all the drops of water in the seven seas
count all the stars in the billions of galaxies
none of those totals
could ever come close
to all the love
in my heart for you

bob boyd

after my work out
i pick up my car at 2pm today
a new tire and an oil change
and to indulge myself i’ll
drive to harris teeter and
use a harris teeter coupon i
have for a huge savings on a
pint of Ben and Jerry’s
ice cream

on the way back to my car
parked near duck donuts
i’ll stop in duck donuts
and buy two of their
incomparably delicious
plain doughnuts baked
while i wait

ice cream and donuts
a treat for an old man
who doesn’t give a damn
about what some would
consider unhealthy food

and maybe occasionally
eating ice cream and
donuts are my only vices
and good for my soul

there are far worse things
i could be doing
like wasting the rest of
my waning years
whether a few or twenty
mindlessly watching
meaningless tv shows all day
on a mind numbing tv screen

or drinking myself to death
in some musty old bar
babbling about nonsensical things
with other drunken old men
barely able to think or speak
nearly incapacitated from
loneliness and too much alcohol

or being driven crazy
living with the wrong woman
who seemed like the right
woman when we first met when
she was on her best behavior

sometimes being alone is better
than being with someone with whom
you are miserable and lonely with

i end this rambling poem thinking
about the ice cream and the donuts
the way i once thought of meeting
a woman for a date

admittedly a poor comparison
to the wonders and charms
of a woman

but it works for me

bob boyd

she seemed ethereal and angelic
as if she were a goddess come
to the planet

he couldn’t believe his luck in
being with her

and always felt unworthy of a
woman so incredibly nice
and seemingly perfect

his heart was crushed when
at age twenty seven she
died of a fatal cancer

his mind was amazed at how
she was unaffected by her
impending death
smiling and serene all the way
through and to the end
and how she assured him
they would be together again
in a higher world as if it were true

she seemed to have some
healing powers she never
spoke of

after he was with her
for a week
his chronic depression
he had all his life
vanished
he never had anxiety again
and unlike before he met
her he always woke up happy

things he attributed to having
been with her
and that continued after
her death

thirty and also dying from
a cancer now he sees her in
dreams comforting him
and ready to welcome
him into that higher world
she spoke of when living
and he knows it is true

bob boyd

so many alien abduction cases
aliens coming through walls
taking people through walls
as though they have the
ability to change matter

non consensual medical
examinations and probings
some abductees allege to
have seen humans standing
in large tubes for what they
didn’t know

some think 411s are related
but for what they don’t know
animal mutilations believed
done by aliens too

perhaps harvesting organs
for unknown medical
purposes

abducting aliens said to be
small and bigger grays

some other classifications
of aliens are
nordics
reptilians
tall whites
ebens
trantaloids
archquloids
quadaloids
heplaloids

the more you look into
these seemingly implausible
matters

the more you find whether
true or all bunk
the prevailing question is
why have scientists not
identified or even seen
all these aliens

the answer is
if aliens are real
they move in and out
of dimensions and
are mostly invisible

the following are not bunk

ufos have been seen entering
and exiting the sea by
naval personnel

ufos have been seen
hovering nuclear sites
all over the world

it is believed by ufologists
that if the nukes are
unleashed

aliens will stop the nukes
and save the planet
and that is why ufos are
seen around nuclear sites

hard to distinguish fact
from fiction with a lot of
alien lore

but i believe some of it
is undoubtedly true

bob boyd