The Light Wearing Your Mask
The afternoon demands a performance you are too tired to give. You keep moving because you are terrified that if you stop, everyone will see the hollow space underneath.
But the light does not need your noise to exist. It was there before you learned to perform, and it remains when the act falls apart.
There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off. He ran.
Before the apology, before the speech — he ran. The light does not wait for you to be full before it arrives.
It fills the hollow. You are not the mask you wear for the world.
You are the light wearing the mask.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 1:14
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