The Light Sees Your Tremor

The coffee is warm, but your hands are cold beneath the table. You are replaying the exact second your voice stayed steady while your stomach dropped, terrified they will ask the one follow-up question that exposes you.

You wear the mask because you think it keeps you safe, but it only keeps the light from reaching the parts of you that are shaking. The truth is, the light sees behind the performance already — it knows the tremor you are hiding.

You do not have to hold your breath waiting for the exposure. The One who knows everything has already looked at you and seen not a fraud, but a friend.

There is no question they can ask that will make the light inside you vanish. You are not a disguise waiting to be removed.

You are the truth waiting to be recognized.