Day: July 1, 2026

Home from the Vietnam War, two tours,
Wheelchair-confined, broken body, traumatized mind.
High school sweetheart wife waited through the
years, the tears, the fears. Cared for him,
stayed with him, loved him through PTSD,
times of depression and despair, hospital stays,
many health problems; her love, her caring unwavering
through it all till at age sixty-eight when he died,
wife at his bedside. Could love be truer than that?

Bob Boyd

There are mystics
who say love is the way
to total liberation,
becoming one with God and
getting off the wheel of rebirth,
living forever in eternal bliss.

I love the thought of that.
I’d love to be one with God
and get off the wheel of rebirth
and live forever in eternal bliss.
But, honestly, my love,
I’d rather stay on the wheel
and keep coming back to this life,
forever … in love with you.

Bob Boyd

The duck, quack, quack, goes quack, quack
all of his life,
but
where does he go when he dies?
Does he die into nothingness,
or
is there such a thing as a duck heaven?
And if there is, does he still quack, quack,
there –
or is his incessant quacking quieted, and
he just quacks telepathically,
like
dead humans in the afterlife supposedly do,
with words or images instead of quacks?

Bob Boyd

Mountain peaks hover over the river,
aware of each other. Appraising the
colors of trees and blooming flowers,
decorating the interior of the shores,
Clouds in the sky looked ragged, a
busy haze is trying to mend them.
The sun goes down, a boat appears,
and I wonder if my true love is on it.

Bob Boyd

His friend said
get a dog instead of a woman,
as if one could just get a woman.

His friend said
a dog won’t cause you any drama
or break your heart.

When he was about to take
his friend’s advice, a woman came
into his life –

who gave him the tender loving care
that no dog ever could.

And there’s no substitute for the
tender loving care of a good woman.

Bob Boyd

Some people alleged to have been abducted,
claimed the aliens came through the walls.

More curiously, they claimed the aliens took
them back through the walls to their UFOs.

The men claimed the aliens, I think greys,
extracted their semen.

The women claimed they extracted their eggs,
supposedly to harvest humanlike hybrids.

Some claimed they saw humanlike beings in
tall oblong tubes

and members of our military at something like
an underground hospital location.

I’ve been looking into these matters for over a
year, and they get curiouser and curiouser.

And I can’t help but wonder if some of these
claims are true.

Bob Boyd

She’d been sick for three months
at age 86,

and she could feel death coming,
as if the reaper were real.

Her daughters thought she was
just imagining death coming

until they both dreamed she
had died.

And when they woke up that
morning, a call from the hospital

confirmed her mother had died.

Bob Boyd

The night felt ominous.
She sensed bad things
were going to happen.

Dark clouds obscured
the full moon, and she
heard wolves howl.

A moment later she
heard a man scream,
and she knew they had
claimed another victim.

Though she felt bad
for the man, in her mind
she thought better him
than me.

And she swore she’d
never go walking at night
during full moons again.

Bob Boyd