the specific terror of hearing your own key in the lock and realizing you have to summon the energy to perform 'okay' one more time before you can collapse

The Sun Does Not Ask You To Perform

The key turns in the lock, and the weight of the performance begins before you even step inside. You brace yourself to be okay for them, to smile when your hands are shaking, to act like the night didn't happen.

But listen — the rising sun does not ask you to earn its light. It simply arrives, tender and quiet, shining on those still in the shadow of their own fear.

You do not have to manufacture a dawn to be held by one. The light is already here, waiting not for your mask, but for your exhaustion.

You made it through the dark; now let the morning carry you.

Drawing from

Luke, Matthew

Verses

Luke 1:78-79, Matthew 11:28

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