The Light Knows You Without Words
The mirror is cold at four in the morning. You say the word 'hello' until it dissolves into noise, until your own face looks like a stranger wearing your skin.
The terror is not that you cannot speak. It is that the words feel empty, like stones in your mouth.
But listen — the light does not need your performance to be real. It was there before you learned to talk.
It is there now, beneath the broken syllables. You do not have to make the words mean anything for the light to hold you.
It knows you without the greeting. It knows you in the silence.
You are not your voice. You are the light that watches you practice.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 1:16
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