reading an old text message from them that sounds kind and feeling your body relax before remembering why you can't reply

Love Remains When It Has Nowhere To Go

The afternoon sun hits the screen, and for a second, your body remembers the safety of those words. You feel your shoulders drop.

You feel the breath come deep. Then the reason you cannot reply crashes back in, and the tension returns, sharper than before.

This is the long middle of the day, where the heart tries to rest in a ghost. But the light does not live in what is gone.

It lives in the quiet courage of staying still when every instinct says to reach out. You are not defined by the silence you keep, but by the love that remains even when it has nowhere to go.

Drawing from

John 9:3, Matthew 26:38-39

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