The Light Does Not Need An Echo
The afternoon light is flat and heavy, pressing down on the things you finally said out loud. You spoke your truth, and the room did not change.
The silence that followed feels like a verdict, as if your voice was too small to move the air. But the light does not always roar.
Sometimes it is the quiet hum beneath the noise of the machine, the steady glow that needs no applause to exist. You are not waiting for an echo to prove you were heard.
The act of speaking was the light breaking surface. The silence is not emptiness; it is the space where your truth now lives, independent of who noticed.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 8:12
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