reaching for the cold side of the bed where a body used to be and forgetting for a split second that it will never be warm again

Light Stays Where the Body Was

The house has settled into that heavy silence only the night knows. You reach across the sheets for a warmth that isn't there, and for one heartbeat, your hand forgets the truth before your mind catches up.

The cold is a shock, a fresh wound opening in the dark. But listen — the light does not require you to remember correctly every time you wake.

It stays in the space where the body used to be. It fills the hollow with a presence that does not leave when the sun goes down.

You are not alone in the gathering dark; you are held by the very thing that outlasts the night.

Drawing from

John, Matthew

Verses

John 14:18, Matthew 28:20

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