Stop Performing to Earn Your Peace

The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with speeches you never meant to give. You catch yourself rehearsing an apology for things you didn't do, just to keep the peace, just to make the air feel lighter.

You are offering words that aren't yours to carry. The light does not ask you to confess to crimes you never committed.

It stands at the door and knocks, waiting for you to stop performing and simply open. There is a name written on a white stone that no one else knows—a name that holds no record of your failures because it only knows who you truly are.

You do not have to buy your place at the table with a lie. The peace you are trying to keep was already given to you, free and without cost.