The Light Sees You Behind The Mask
The mask feels fused to your skin now, a second layer grown thick from years of hiding. You try to move the muscles underneath and find only silence, as if the real you has forgotten how to speak.
But listen — the light does not need your face to move before it can see you. It sees the one behind the armor, the one who is tired of performing.
What you think is atrophy is just deep rest, a long sleep the soul took to survive the winter. The truth that lives in you has not forgotten its shape.
It is waiting for you to stop trying so hard and simply let it breathe. You are not your mask.
You are the light that shines through it, even when you cannot feel it moving.
Drawing from
2 John 1:2, Gospel of Thomas 51
Verses
2 John 1:2
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