Day: July 13, 2026

Last time I saw her
She left for India
To follow a Guru
Never heard from
Her after that
Nor did her parents
Her parents hired
A detective to
Find her but
He never did
It was as if
Mother India
Had swallowed
Her

Began seeing
Her in dreams
Her body soaked
In water

Her parents
Saw her in
Those dreams
Too

Weeks later
Her body
Was found
In the Ganges

The Guru ran
A death cult
And sacrificed
Her to a Hindu
God and dumped
Her corpse in
The depths
Of the Ganges

Police in India
Tried to find
The evil Guru
But before they
Caught up
With him
He walked
Into the ganges
And drowned
Chanting mantras
To his Hindu god

After his death
I saw her in
Dreams again
But in heaven
Maybe hate
Held her back
From going
There until
The Guru
Was dead.

Maybe her soul
Was connected
To the Guru
Until he died
And
She was
released

Bob Boyd

In a YouTube video, I saw a dog
excitedly leap off a boat and swim
toward a school of dolphins.

The video stopped just as the
dog reached the dolphins, so I don’t
know how they reacted to him.

From what I researched, it’s unlikely
they’d hurt him, and thank God
they weren’t sharks.

And I wondered if the dog saw a
shark in the ocean if it would
swim after him too,

or would the dog sense the
danger and his death if
he swam after the shark?

Personally, I believe the same way
he excitedly swam after the dolphins,
he’d swim after a shark.

Bob Boyd

When you get so old that your body
has fallen apart –

and you’re barely living.

When your body is wracked with pain
that painkillers cannot take away –

and every day you’re suffering.

Be grateful for death, the reliever
of all suffering.

Bob Boyd

The defender of the faith
isn’t defending the faith anymore.

It’s as if he’s defending a faith
alien to the country he rules.

Many of subjects have lost respect
for him,

and the faith he is now embracing
is hellbent on taking over his country.

And will end his culture and future
monarchies.

But the failed defender cannot see
this –

much to his country and its
peoples’ peril

Bob Boyd