It took years for the physicist and the meta-physicist to reluctantly agree.
They took opposing alleys: One looked into matter and arrived at its intrinsic energy. The other looked at energy and saw matter as incidental analogy; just a random criss-cross of cosmic puissance.
They made much ado in arriving where my good old three-band radio catapulted me years ago.
Since my teens; she had faithfully been my worthy companion. With sweet melodies, thoughtful talks, rousing commentaries.... she kept me company through thick and thin. For a scanty eternity, she was the only tie with humanity in my plain, flat life; lonesome, sickly and solitary.
We knew each other closely; fondly and dearly and I would talk to her, some would say foolishly, and though strangely, she always responded readily.
For years sixteen that Philips machine was with me and I saw into her inherent energy that underlies every material entity.
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When she died suddenly without warning....abruptly, I knew a friend had gone but the essence lived on.
We had perfect camaraderie: She was all intricacy; body, battery and circuitry, and the spark that came from me; ah!!! my art of tuning adeptly.
Though I got newer models and makes, the heart still beats with a dull ache for the one who began as mortal matter and bonded timelessly with my being; ...merged and mingled... as an undying memory, in what they call my imperishable, impregnable spirit.
Inspired by: Loneliness, sickness, contemplation, nostalgia, longing and a Philips radio set.
The radio set was purchased by my father when I was a year old. It was a 3-band radio and came with a leather case that had a shoulder string. My parents would take a walk after supper and I would be perched on one of their arms while the radio would be slung on the other shoulder. I grew up with it. It kept me company for as long as it lasted and remained a true companion in my varyingly solitary moments.