Your Silence Is Not Cruelty
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy enough to crush you. You lie awake wondering if your stillness is actually cruelty wearing a mask.
If not speaking up is the same as turning away. But the light does not accuse you of hiding; it sees the fear that froze your tongue.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even when that person is too terrified to move. The silence you hate yourself for is not a wall; it is the space where the light is gathering strength to speak through you tomorrow.
You are not your silence. You are the light waiting to break it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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