the reflex to turn and share a small joke or observation, only to stop mid-sentence when you realize the person who used to laugh at your specific rhythm is no longer there

The Light Waits in Your Silence

The afternoon moves forward, and you turn to share a small joke, only to find the space beside you empty. The sentence dies in your throat, heavy with the sudden realization that the one who knew your rhythm is gone.

In that suspended silence, the light does not scold you for turning around. It waits with you in the quiet aftermath of the unspoken word.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the corners where grief has settled like dust. You came from the light, and to that place you will return, carrying both the laughter and the loss.

The silence is not an absence; it is the space where the light learns to hold you when no one else can.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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