The Light Between Fear and Sleep
The house is quiet, but your heart is screaming. You watch the steady rise and fall of the person beside you, and the distance feels like an ocean no one else can see.
You are holding a secret that has already turned the room cold—the truth that the love is gone, even while the breath remains. In this deepest hour, the weight of the silence is heavy enough to crush you.
But listen. The light that shines in the darkness has not been extinguished by your hidden pain.
It is right here, in the space between your fear and their sleep. You do not have to carry the whole night alone.
The truth you are guarding is not stronger than the love that holds you both. The dawn is coming, and it will not ask you to have the answers before the sun rises.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5
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