The Light Speaks Through Your Breathing

The mask goes on before you even leave the bed. You practice the face that says 'I'm fine' while your mind scrambles for a single true thing to offer the day.

But the light does not need your performance. It does not need your polished speech or your perfect plan.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world even when your mouth is silent. You have been trying to manufacture words to prove you exist, but the truth has already arrived without your help.

What you look forward to — the clarity, the purpose, the voice — has already come, and you simply do not recognize it in the quiet. Stop searching for something to say.

The light is already speaking through your breathing, through your waiting, through the very fact that you woke up.