The Risk of Being Known

The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the speech you are rehearsing. You run the words over and over, terrified that speaking them out loud will shatter the one relationship that still feels safe.

You hold the confession inside like a stone, believing silence is the only thing keeping you from being alone. But the light does not need your perfection to stay close.

It stands at the door of your heart and knocks, waiting for you to let it in. You imagine the relationship breaking if you speak, yet the truth is the very thing that makes relationship real.

The darkness you are hiding in is already known, and it has not driven the light away. The risk of being known is the only way to stop being lonely.