The Voice Inside the Silence
The afternoon hums with a specific kind of loneliness—the phantom vibration of a phone that never rings with the one name you need to see. You check the screen again.
Nothing. Just the same silence, the same empty space where a message should be.
It feels like being forgotten in plain sight, while the world rushes by and your heart stays still, waiting for a signal that doesn't come. But listen—there is a voice that does not need a network to reach you.
It speaks in the quiet between the noise, in the pause between the breaths. The light is not waiting for a signal to find you; it is already here, pressing against the glass of your attention.
You are not invisible. You are known by a name that no screen can display, held by a love that does not depend on a ringtone to prove it exists.
The silence you feel is not absence; it is the space where the real voice is speaking.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 10:27
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