The Light That Lives in Your Silence
The house is quiet now, but you can still feel the weight of their gaze on your skin. They are searching your face for a truth you refused to give, and the silence where your answer should be feels like a wound that won't close.
You held your ground not because you were hard, but because the light inside you knew that some truths cannot be spoken until the asking stops. The darkness has not overcome it — the light that lives in your silence is brighter than any demand made in the night.
You do not owe them your soul to prove you are real. The watching ends when you stop performing for an audience that cannot see what you are hiding.
You are not a riddle to be solved by eyes that refuse to see the light already shining.
Drawing from
John 1:5, Gospel of Thomas 24
Verses
John 1:5
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