The Dawn Does Not Ask You To Perform
The laugh just faded, and now the silence feels heavy with the thing you hid. You made them love a mask, and you are terrified they will see the face underneath.
But the sun is rising anyway, spilling light on the parts of you that you tried to keep in the dark. The dawn does not ask you to be impressive; it only asks you to be real.
There is a version of you that exists before the performance, before the joke, before the fear. The light knows that version already.
It has been waiting for you to stop pretending so it can love who you actually are. You do not have to earn the morning; you just have to step into it.
Drawing from
Matthew 5:14, Thomas 22
Verses
Matthew 5:14
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