Silence Cannot Extinguish the Light Between You

The afternoon sun is bright, but your mind is still in the dark hours of the night, rehearsing tomorrow's conversation with a child who has gone quiet. You are wondering if their silence is a wall they are building to keep you out, or a shield they are forging to protect you from their pain.

But listen — the light does not need them to speak before it sees them. It does not require words to know the heart.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world, even when that person is silent. Even when they are hiding.

That same light is in you, and it is in them, and no amount of silence can extinguish the connection between two flames that come from the same source. You do not have to break down the door to reach them.

You only have to remain what you are. The light that lives in you already knows the way to the light in them, through the silence, through the fear, through the unspoken things.