The Light Behind Your Laugh
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the replay. You see the exact second you laughed at their joke while your soul was somewhere else, terrified they felt the distance in your eyes.
Tonight, that absence feels like a wall you built yourself. But the light does not depend on your performance to be present.
It was there in the silence behind your laugh, waiting for you to stop pretending. The darkness has not overcome it.
You are not your distraction. You are the light that was shining even when you forgot to look.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5, Thomas 24
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