The Light Inside Your Silence
The cursor blinks in the dark room, a steady pulse while your thumb hovers over the screen. You type the truth—'I can't do this anymore'—and then you delete it.
Word by word. Backspace until the glass is blank again.
The fear whispers that if they see the crack, they will see the whole broken thing. But the light does not need your polished words to find you.
It is already inside the silence you are so afraid of. You are not hiding from the dark; you are hiding from the fact that you are already known.
The message does not need to be sent for you to be held. The breaking is not the end of you; it is the place where the light gets in.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 70, 1 John 3:19-20
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