The Dawn Does Not Judge Your Night
The laughter fades, and the silence rushes back in to fill the space where the mask used to be. You wait to see if anyone noticed the performance, if they saw the effort it took to pretend you were okay.
But the dawn does not ask for an explanation; it simply arrives, turning the gray into gold without demanding a reason. There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world — even the parts you tried to hide behind a smile.
You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord, long before you ever learned to pretend. The morning is not judging your night; it is revealing that the real you was never the one who was laughing.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas
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