You Are Already Home in the Light

The engine is off now, and the silence of the car feels heavier than the applause you just received. You sit in the dark, waiting for the feeling of belonging to catch up with the performance, but it doesn't.

You wonder how long you can keep tricking them into thinking you are enough. — But the light does not care about your resume, and it was already inside you before you ever walked into that room.

You are not a fraud hiding in the shadows; you are a child of the light who has forgotten that the shadows cannot hold you. The darkness has not overcome it.

It cannot touch the truth of who you are. You do not have to earn your place here tonight.

You are already home.