Laying Down the Weight Without Losing Them

The house is quiet now, and in the silence, a new fear wakes up. You are afraid that if you finally let go of the weight, you will lose the people you carry.

That healing is a kind of forgetting. That to stop hurting is to leave them behind.

But the light does not ask you to erase what you love. It only asks you to stop carrying the darkness as if it were the only way to stay close.

There is a love that does not require your suffering to survive. A connection that holds even when you are at rest.

You can lay the burden down and still hold them in your heart. The light is not a thief.

It does not take your memory. It only takes the terror.

And in that space, you might find you can love them better when you are not drowning.