The Light Does Not Need Your Performance
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the echo of your own voice. You replay the exact tone of that goodbye, convinced they heard the desperation you tried so hard to hide.
You lie there analyzing the crack in your composure, certain it gave you away. But the light does not need your performance to be steady.
It saw the fear in the room before you even spoke, and it did not turn away. There is a mercy that covers what you cannot fix, a quiet knowing that sees the struggle beneath the words.
You do not have to rewrite the scene for the light to stay. The darkness gathers outside, but it cannot touch the truth of who you are when the talking stops.
Drawing from
Matthew 26:38-39, Gospel of Mary 5:4-5
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