rehearsing a simple phone call in your head for hours until the moment passes and you hate yourself for not making it

The Light Remained While You Couldn't

The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with a conversation that never happened. You rehearsed the words a hundred times until the moment passed, and now the silence feels like failure.

But listen — the light that lives inside you did not vanish when you stayed silent. It was there in the trembling hand, and it is here in the regret.

You came from the light, and the light came into being on its own accord; it does not depend on your perfect timing to exist. The phone can wait until morning.

The love inside you cannot. You are not defined by the call you didn't make, but by the light that remained while you couldn't.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas 50, Matthew 6:18

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