On the lush lips of LOVE my soul slumbers in timeless bliss; the kiss of life. While the body rests not, embraced by fear, being slowly swallowed by the looming shadow of ever present death; death the brain has dreamt as permanent end and not the kiss from God to life next, always it is.

Immortality is only the acceptance of your truest lover’s kiss away…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.” ~ Victor Hugo

Your heartbeat is my heartbeat
Your breath is my breath
Your life is my life
Your death is my death
Your smile is my smile
Your tear is my tear
Your love is my love
Your fear is my fear

Destiny ever entwined
All is one, one is all
Together we have risen
Together we shall fall…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Arm’d and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness
chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.”
~ Walt Whitman

To forsake LOVE is to commit suicide by heartbreak and fear is the razor that cuts you open, leaving your spirit to bleed; is this to be the chosen fate of man, to die loveless, heartbroken, blade in hand?

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

Gather this moment your loved ones; the warmth of the summer sun is fading into Fall’s alchemy, turning green leaves to golden dust. And from the decay of autumn, rises Winter’s moon; the brown of earth now still, sleeping beneath blankets of December white. Seek your shelter from the savage storms to follow; in one another’s embrace comforted. Until in the wet light of spring burst you forth; seeds sprouting, life renewed. Freed by LOVE, to greet and frolic in the amber rays of June days again. 

Remembering it is only the trials of the illusion of seasons that change, the truth of our need of LOVE to flourish, thrive and grow cannot and forever never will; cycles of life nurtured in the womb of Infinity…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”

~W.H. Auden

Inside the heart of even the most evil hateful man there is LOVE or they would not be, our job as the faithful servants of LOVE’s eternal flame is to find that ember of LOVE that smoldering ash inside every being and fan it until LOVE’s flame rages within them, like an inferno, once more…

Hate is but the beacon of beings in distress, calling from the shadow, to bring them from their fear in which they have become lost, home to LOVE. 

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“Love those you hate you.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

To often we confuse lust with LOVE; but lust is but the craving of ever famished loins, while LOVE is the giving of endlessly overflowing hearts. 

Lust seeks only to quench its own desire, while love is the water that quells the thirst of the both the lover and the loved.

It has been said many time, in many tongues; that life is a thing that must be lusted after; this confusion, this misunderstanding of the Soul’s eternal need with the finite desire of flesh, has led us astray and is one, but not the only source of mankind’s decay. 

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“If they substituted the word ‘Lust’ for ‘Love’ in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.” ~ Sylvia Plath

Fear is hubris; the expectation of oblivion 
Love is humble; the experience of Infinity…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” ~ Thomas Merton

Fear is a sneaky thief lurking in the shadowy recesses of our being waiting to steal moments of our LOVE…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” ~ William Shakespeare

I am alone; this is the disease, the myth of fear we have been, doing, surviving in.

We are one; this is the cure, the truth of LOVE we must now accept if ever we wish to be, to live.

Look around you, this truth is self evident in everything in natural universe, except for us. Then ask yourself; is everything else in existence a lie in what it is being or am I?

Most say they believe and worship God in one way, one form or another and yet we disrespect God’s very nature; following instead our own unnatural path; am I missing something? I don’t think so…

So as I see it, we can either accept the truth we have been preaching of God for millennium or we can admit now; that we are lazy, cowardly, liars, that relish in our methodology of self-serving, self-destruction more than we value the very process and experience of life itself.

And which ever is chosen, I really don’t care, but let’s at least admit knowingly or unwittingly that we are all complicit in the charade, turned cancer that human civilization has become, as our continued denial of the obvious, is quite frankly, just boring.

Happiness is only a choice away…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin
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“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” ~ William Shakespeare

Teardrops and rainbows
Dragons and butterflies
Yesterdays and tomorrows
Hellos and goodbyes 
That’s what life is made of
Rain clouds filled with pain
If man into madness does not shove
Then already you’re insane 
But the choice always ours
Fear’s asylum, life in vain
Or oneness, LOVE’s eternal vow
Grateful to roam Infinity’s plain…

just LOVE…
Kip Baldwin 
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“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” ~ Henri Frederic Amiel