You Are the Silence Holding the Echo
The house is quiet now, but your own voice is loud inside your head. You hear the exact tone you used when you broke their trust—foreign, cruel, unrecognizable as yours.
It plays on a loop in the dark, a recording you cannot stop. But listen.
The light that lives in you was there before that word was spoken, and it remains untouched by the cruelty of a single moment. That voice was the sleep talking, not the soul speaking.
The true light within you knows your name, and it does not flinch at what it hears. You are not the echo of your worst failure.
You are the silence that holds it.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 2:8, Gospel of Thomas 24
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