Poems by Bob Boyd

Monsters in the movies
always get ended
and of course
they’re just fictional
unlike real monsters
outside the movies
rapists, murderers,
serial killers and
pedophiles
some who never
get ended
or even caught

Bob Boyd

Jenna took up with bad boy Benny.
She saw an iota of good in him.
She felt it was enough to save him.
She felt she could civilize him.
He said her loved her then hit her.
She suffered his violence for a while.
Each time he apologized.
But beat her again and again.
When she give up on Benny,
it was far too late to leave him.
When Jenna tried to escape,
she ended up beaten to death.

Bob Boyd

Sitting in a vibrant forest
song birds singing in the trees,
squirrels scampering on the ground,
I felt the spinning of the planet.
I heard the eternal hum of the cosmos.
I saw mysteries of which I cannot speak.
I felt a oneness with all things.
I experienced an incomparable bliss.
For a moment, I felt like a god among men.
Then the extraordinary experience passed,
and I was just another mere mortal
sitting on a rock in a teeming forest.

Bob Boyd

Tim was fated with physical and mental
health disabilities, which often made me
wonder why did a nice guy like him have
to suffer with dual disabilities when I and
others didn’t have to. The unfairness
always bothered me, and I’ve wondered
why in this world some suffer far more
than others. I cannot accept the theory
that its deserved bad karma, those
suffering people getting their just due.
I cannot accept that those unfortunate
people have those inflictions for a
greater purpose. I think it’s all random,
the good or bad luck of the draw.

Bob Boyd

Science has no proof of an afterlife
and when you’re dead that may be
the complete end of your existence.
Just as it doesn’t seem like an
insect would have an afterlife, maybe
it’s the same for human beings.
People who have been dead and
come back to life have inspiring
accounts of something more, tunnel
of light, life reviews, unconditional
love, mystical experiences, angels,
heaven, peace, bliss, love, et cetera.
These may be just caused by other
factors related to the brain shutting
down, running out of oxygen and
hallucinations that cause artificial
spiritual and afterlife experiences.
At 80 years of age, I’ve come to a
place where I don’t care if there’s
nothing there when you die, if all
that was you is obliterated forever.

Bob Boyd

She was popular in high school
a quite pretty and studious girl.
She joined the drama club and
found her passion in her life.
After high school, she moved
to Hollywood intent on being a
movie star.
After years of trying, she got
a role in a comedy movie with
famous actors, and it seemed
her career was on its way.
But she never had a decent role
after that, and in her forties
became a secretary for an
insurance company to make
a living at a job she didn’t like.
She failed in her life’s ambition.
Deep depression set in, and
sadly, she took her life, her
dead dreams too much to bear.

Bob Boyd

science disregards the commonalities
of peoples’ near death experiences
it alleges other factors are the cause of
all the common threads experienced
it claims oxygen deprivation causes
hallucinations and euphoric feelings
sudden neurochemical releases
of endorphins, vivid hallucinations
and dramatically altered perceptions
and spikes in brain activity can
cause intense mystical experiences
and temporal lobe activity that
might lead to out of body feelings
and encounters with divine figures
in other words when you are dead
you are dead and nothing more
according to the science skepticism
the most disappointing part of this is
maybe science is absolutely right

bob boyd

he plucked her out of poverty
paid her baby son’s medical bills
provided her with a better life
took her from the third world
to the advantageous first world
not long after all he did for her
she ungratefully left him
in search of more first world
splendors and advantages

bob boyd

stealthily navigating the cosmos
unseen, undetectable, invisible
scientists say they don’t exist
because they cannot see them
their technology too advanced
their intellects far superior
except when they materialize
briefly from time to time
in the air supersonically
and coming out of the sea
and surreptitiously
working with the military

bob boyd

At age, 60, Doctor Brown had finally
invented a concoction he called the
Youthful Elixir, a manmade fountain
of youth.

With his first drink, he loved the taste,
like a sweet cocktail.

When he finished the drink, in his mirror
he looked 10 years younger.

The effects exceeded his hopes, but
the elixir was too intoxicating due to a
heavy concentration of alcohol.

Doctor Brown, hooked on the elixir,
drank it all night, getting higher, happier,
and younger with each drink.

In the morning, all his elixir imbibed,
he woke up irreversibly a babbling baby
helpless, and equivalent to a new born babe.

Bob Boyd