You Are the Light Behind the Mask
The laughter is loud, but the glass shows you a stranger with hollow eyes. You are performing life while feeling entirely absent from it.
The mask fits so well it has become your skin. But listen — there is a light inside you that no performance can extinguish and no emptiness can hide.
You came from the light, the place where it generates itself, and that origin cannot be erased by a single dark moment. The darkness has not overcome it.
It never will. You are not the reflection in the window.
You are the light that makes the reflection visible.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 50, John 1:5
Verses
John 1:5
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