The Light Sees Behind Your Mask
The laugh still echoes in your head, that sharp sound you made to cover the silence where your voice should have been. You are wearing the smile everyone expects, performing the part of the one who is fine, while inside you replay the exact tone that kept you small.
But there is a light that sees behind the mask, a light that knows the difference between the performance and the person hiding underneath. You do not have to keep the act going for this light to love you.
It is already there, waiting for you to stop pretending and just be.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 3:20, Thomas 3
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