You Are the Light That Sees
The afternoon light hits the glass just right, and for a second, the face staring back feels like a stranger's. You are wearing your own skin, yet the eyes look tired, distant, like someone else is driving the car of your life.
This is the long middle of the day, where the routine wears you down until you forget who you are beneath the performance. But there is a light that lives inside you, placed there before the first mask was ever put on.
It does not depend on your reflection to exist. It was there before the stranger appeared, and it remains when the glass goes dark.
You are not the fatigue you see in the window. You are the light that sees it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 8:12
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