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Supposedly the dead
can show the living
signs that they are well
that everything is okay
once after I learned a
friend had died years
after he passed away
I wrote a poem to him
a week later I saw him
happy in a lucent dream
maybe you’ve had dreams
of the dead you knew too,
many are those who do.
Bob Boyd
She’s had too many bad breaks
for one human to endure
her mother and father died
when she was four
brought up in foster care homes
some harmed her physically
some harmed her mentally
devaluing and demeaning her
in another foster family in it for the money
a family member almost killed her
a gunshot in her young body at twelve
on life supports nearly died
she miraculously recovered
but more scars on her psyche
when finally freed from the system
a homeless, drug addict at 18
eventually became clean
and helped others do the same
despite the many disadvantages
that sadly shaped her life
she’s risen above the disadvantages
and doing the best she can.
Bob Boyd
As you surely know
mediums claim they
can contact
the spirits of the dead
it seems implausible
to me
but when you listen
to some of them
definitely
sound convincing
sure, it’s probably
a clever con
with tricks and
cold readings
but there are people
who I believe have
experienced genuine
after death
communications
considering that,
and rethinking this
ethereal matter
maybe some people
really can contact
the spirits
of the dead.
Bob Boyd
When a teenager
he had his demons
trouble in high school
a chronically troubled kid
always acting up
misbehaving his MO
always skipped classes
often kicked out of high school
a pariah in that academic setting
respected playing pool in a pool hall
with troubled friends, some delinquents
the camaraderie of working class rebels
never got in trouble with the law
didn’t want to be a caged pariah
hard knocks aplenty and aplenty
began to straighten him out
after an insubordination stint
30 days military correctional custody
days and nights of deep introspection
in faraway Zweibrucken, Germany
began to turn his turbulent life around
the better man gradually emerging
he walked upon firmer ground
eventually became liberated
the newer, better him – finally born.
Bob Boyd