The Light Sees You Before The Mask
The afternoon light hits the bathroom mirror and exposes every crack in the mask you wear. You stare at the stranger staring back, convinced that today is the day the fraud gets caught.
That the moment you step outside, the performance will collapse under its own weight. But the light does not need your costume to see you.
It saw you before you ever learned to pretend. It knows the part of you that is tired of acting.
You do not have to bring forth a perfect image to be saved; you have to bring forth the real one, or the hiding will slowly destroy you. The voice in the quiet says: neither do I condemn you.
Go now. Leave the act behind.
Drawing from
John 8:10-11, Gospel of Thomas 70
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