Day: June 28, 2025

he was incautious with his heart
he surrendered it too freely
made bad decisions with it
the costs were high
the mistakes many
heartaches plenty
disappointments and tears
increased through the years
till he barricaded his heart
gave up on romance
died lonely and unloved

bob boyd

They’re protesting in their streets.
Their government has become a
tyrannical mess ruled by an
incompetent, untrustworthy tyrant.
Citizens imprisoned for tweets.
More than criminals in the streets.
Free speech relentlessly silenced.
Human Rights keep eroding.
Country becoming like a regime.
Invasions of unvetted migrants.
Peace and harmony destroyed.
A once great empire falling.
Might never recover its lost glory.
Heartbreaking to behold.

Bob Boyd

The military didn’t work for him.
He couldn’t be regimented.
He was too individualized.
He was too rebellious.
They busted him down
two ranks.
They threw him in the brig
for 30 confined days.
But they couldn’t break him.
They couldn’t reform him.
He got out of the military
unbroken but a better man
despite not fitting in.
The experience refined him.
The many hard knocks
improved his character.
His individualized life
kept getting better and
better in a less mechanized
civilian world.

Bob Boyd

Imagine
if your place
in nature
brief and
limited
to being
fish food.

Worse
consider
your brief life
limited
to alien food
one otherworldly
terrifying fay.

What is truly
bothersome
is why
some lifeforms
exist only
as food for
other lifeforms.

Consider
the chicken.

But
in the end
Mother Earth
eats us all.

Bob Boyd