Oh how I wanted to move to Thailand
not for the women in the streets
outside the bars
or the drinking and the wild partying

not to be a sex tourist
far from those empty, carnal pleasures
except for the pleasures of
a one and only true love
and many are the exotically
beautiful Thai women

though not a Buddhist, I wanted to see
the Buddhist temples
and the Buddhist monks
and at that time I was interested in
Mauy Thai, would have loved to
have attended the fights
maybe I would have bought a
phra kruang amulet

never got there, went to the Philippines
instead
a beautiful Filipina changed my mind.

Bob Boyd