Day: May 17, 2026

He watched her combing her hair
and putting on her makeup.
His heart swelled with love for
her, and he loved watching her
doing the simplest things.
He thought a quiet prayer to God,
praying she’d be with him for
the rest of his life and even in
the next life, death not doing
them apart.
His prayer must have worked.
When they were both 87, they
died together of natural causes.
Perhaps they’re both together
young again and holding hands
in the eternal bliss of an afterlife.

Bob Boyd

He was just a teenage kid.
She was his first girlfriend.
Initially, everything was more
than wonderful.
He’d found the love of his life.
He’d found a happiness
beyond what he thought possible.
He loved her so much he said
he’d die a hundred times for her.
He asked her to marry him
when they got older.
She happily agreed and gave
him a long, meaningful kiss.
A year later, his future wife
cheated on him, destroying
their true teenage love.
Unable to live without the
girl he pledged his forever
love to, whom he vowed to
marry, he put his father’s
pistol to his head and
pulled the trigger, dead forever,
on the night his ex-girlfriend had
changed her mind and decided
to call him the next day, unaware
that it was too late … too late,
his death, her fate.

Bob Boyd

On an ordinary day on Chestnut street,
he saw a perpendicular person,
translucent and glittering,
on the other side of the street.

He looked away, frightened by the
bizarre and scary sight, hoping
it wouldn’t come after him on
that ordinary day.

He caught some luck when he
took another peek at the
perpendicular, translucent and
glittering person.

That unexplainable and weird
being had vanished, and he
wondered if it was time to
change his meds.

Bob Boyd