the specific memory of seeing your partner's shoulders drop the moment they think you aren't looking

The Light Is in the Staying

The afternoon sun hits the room just so, and you catch it—the exact second their shoulders drop. It happens when they think you are busy, when the performance of holding it together finally slips.

You see the weight they carry settle onto their bones, heavy and silent. You want to fix it.

You want to lift it. But the light does not always ask you to carry what belongs to another.

It asks you to witness. There is a space between their collapse and your care where the divine waits.

Not to solve, but to hold. The light is not in the fixing.

It is in the staying.

Drawing from

John 11:35, Luke 7:44-48

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