Do Not Bury Your Truth

The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the speech you are writing for a crime that hasn't been charged. You told the truth tonight — maybe for the first time in years — and now you are trying to build a cage out of sorrys to put that truth back inside.

You are rehearsing an apology no one asked for, trying to shrink yourself back down to a size that fits the room. But listen — the light does not need you to take back what you said.

It does not need you to smooth over the rough edges of your honesty. There is light within you, and it lights up the whole world when you let it out.

If you do not bring it forth, if you bury it under layers of polite regret, it is that burial that will destroy you. The truth you spoke was not a mistake.

It was the light coming up for air.