When you wake from the black, black, black illusion of fear to the truth, the reality of LOVE, its light is so bright that is can be disorienting, dizzying, blinding as shadow remnants, fear’s wraiths dance out of the corners of your mind’s eye and it may take a million existences for our giggling holographic demons of regret and loss to dissolve entirely into vastness of Infinity; much like radio waves beaming “War of the Worlds” to the farthest reaches of the universe, until only the faintest vibration a shadow of a shadow, a ghost of a ghost remains to haunt some alien consciousness, no longer you, some lifetime, an eternity away…

The only way to truly forget entirely this incarnation of you in fear, is to choose to not remember, this you, that never really were; just a phantom that grows weaker and weaker as it moves further from the source of this now. After all once the radio was turned off there never were malevolent aliens attacking the Earth. But it felt real in the moment didn’t it?

But know this regret is part of this life, for too live without regret would mean in this life, to never have truly experienced all this life has to offer; to never have truly loved this life, to never have allowed yourself to truly LOVE in this life.

Each time I regret, it is a photo album of faces, a radio show of voices of loved ones gone on and in each fading picture, each disintegrating radio wave, what I see, what I hear, what I regret is that did not show and say I loved them one last time, before they left me behind.

Just LOVE radio signing off; this concludes our broadcast for today…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” ~ Henry David Thoreau