Day: October 6, 2025

His body began breaking down
in his early thirties.

He’d been strong and fit, and
couldn’t figure out why.

He went to see a doctor
and was put in a hospital.

He was probed, examined,
his blood taken.

Worst diagnosis possible,
cancer at age 31.

A year later, dead at the
young age of 32.

Why do such awful things
have to happen

to some young people
God, I’m asking you?

Bob Boyd

He used to like to fish
days and nights,
all the time.

To him it was a sport.
He didn’t catch fish to eat.

He caught all kinds of fish,
bass, trout, catfish, perch,
sunfish and more.

Once he even caught a tiny squid.

Once he could have caught
a crab; it hung on to the bait
and finally dropped off.

But there came a time in
his twenties when he could
no longer fish; he could no
catch, harm, or kill fish
for fun.

He didn’t know why that
change in him occurred,
an awakening
he hadn’t expected.

A blessing for the fish.

Bob Boyd

What a feeling it was when as a teenager
for the first time in my life, I held hands with a girlfriend.
Wow! I couldn’t believe how good, how wonderful, it felt.
It was like a fusion of hearts, hers and mine, in that
most special, sweetest of all moments in my teenage days.
I felt like I was melting with bliss inside my heart and
straight to the core of my budding, youthful being.
If only … if only for a wondrous, magical moment,
I could experience that enchanting, teenage feeling again.

Bob Boyd