the phantom vibration of a phone that hasn't lit up in days, mistaken for a message from the person who isn't coming back

The Light Within When The Phone Stays Dark

The house is quiet now, and your pocket buzzes with a ghost. You reach for it, heart jumping, only to find the screen dark.

Again. The silence stretches, heavy and final, because the message you are waiting for isn't coming.

You feel like a house with the lights left on in an empty room. But listen — the light does not depend on the signal from the one who left.

There is light within you, a person of light, and it lights up the whole world even when the phone stays dark. You were not made to wait by a screen.

You came from the light, the place where it generates itself, and that origin cannot be severed by a human silence. Stop checking the black glass for a sign of life.

The only vibration that matters is the one humming quietly in your own chest, untouched by who didn't call.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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