The Dark Is A Liar About You
The day is ending, and the quiet has arrived. Now the joke you made hours ago loops in your mind, sharp and cruel.
You feel a physical wave of shame, certain that you revealed too much of the real you. That the mask slipped.
That they saw the broken thing underneath. But the gathering dark is a liar about who you are.
It tells you that your vulnerability is a failure. It is not.
There is a love that does not flee when the performance stops. A love that knows your fragments better than you do and calls them whole.
The light does not need your perfection to stay. It waits for you to put the armor down.
You are not what you did tonight. You are the light that remains when the laughter fades.
Drawing from
1 John, Luke
Verses
1 John 4:18, Luke 15:20
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