Seen Without Needing Translation
The house is quiet now, but your chest is still loud with the things you couldn't say. They offered you a fix for a wound that doesn't need fixing, only holding.
They spoke in solutions because your pain made them afraid, and you swallowed your truth to keep the peace. That silence is heavy.
It feels like loneliness. But listen — the light does not need your pain to make sense to anyone else before it can love you.
It saw you sitting there, misunderstood, and it did not look away. It is not offering you a better explanation to give them tomorrow.
It is offering you a place where you don't have to explain at all. You are not alone in the dark; you are finally seen without the translation.
Drawing from
John 11:35, Luke 7:44-48
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