You Are Not a Performance Waiting

The ceiling is still there, and so are the words you keep rehearsing for tomorrow. You are running through conversations in your head, trying to build a case that you are not empty, that you have something to offer when the sun comes up.

But the light does not ask you to prove your worth before it stays with you. There is a peace that does not look like the world's peace, and it is given to you right now, in this quiet, without a single word spoken.

You do not have to fill the silence to be held by it. The light shines in this darkness, and it has not been overcome by your exhaustion or your fear of being found out.

You are not a performance waiting to be judged. You are a child of the light, resting in the truth that you are already enough.