The Light Reads Your Unsent Draft
It is late. The house is quiet enough that you can hear your own heartbeat, but your eyes are locked on those three dots pulsing in the dark.
They appear. They vanish.
They appear again. And in that rhythmic silence, a cold fear takes hold: that what you just typed is being edited, softened, or deleted before it can ever be seen.
You are terrified that your raw, trembling truth is too much for the light to hold. But listen — the light does not require a polished performance.
It does not need you to sanitize your pain before sending it. The dots are not a sign of judgment; they are a sign of presence.
Someone is there. Reading.
Waiting. You do not have to rewrite your soul to be received.
The truth you are afraid to send is the very thing that connects you to the one waiting on the other side. Stop editing.
Let the message stand. The light is already reading the unsent draft of your heart.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, Luke
Verses
Luke 8:17
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