Day: August 8, 2025

I see you crickets in plastic containers
in pet stores seemingly thriving.
With free food and water, you might
think you’re living the good life,
that is if you have any cognizance.
Woe to you probably having no idea
you’ll soon be terrorized by lizards
who will kill you, who will devour you.
In a delusional way, I wish I could
save you all from such a tragic fate.
In a humane way, I wish all of you
could have lived free in nature.
But I guess you’d still get eaten
by some other hungry predator.
And you’re not exactly vegans
when you eat smaller insects.
I guess in this world that’s just how
things work; lifeforms eating other
lifeforms like humans eating chickens.

Bob Boyd

I read if humans died out
insects would still be thriving.
Imagine little bugs outliving
big humans in the long run.
Is this anything like the meek
inheriting the earth?
I don’t think that was the
Biblical meaning but imagine
if it came true one dismal day.
Spiders, cockroaches, ants
etc still in towns and cities.
Humans dead in the ground.

Bob Boyd

At age 16, he dove into a pool
and hit his head on the bottom.
Somehow he made it to the surface,
but was paralyzed from the waist down.
He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
Somehow he stayed cheerful and positive.
Never seemed to let his misfortune stop him.
Had a great job helping people for a living,
Attracted more women sitting in his wheelchair
Then I ever could standing on my feet.
He inspired me the way he led a great life
Despite his challenges with a lifelong disability.

Bob Boyd