The Ghost in Your Pocket
The morning light hits the screen, and your hand moves before your mind does. Reaching for a phone that never rings with news of them.
The silence is loud enough to drown out the coffee pouring, the traffic starting, the world waking up without you. You are performing okayness for the day while carrying a ghost in your pocket.
But the light sees behind the mask. It sees the hand trembling as it unlocks a door that opens to an empty room.
Neither do I condemn you for looking. Go now.
The news you are waiting for has already been written in a language louder than silence.
Drawing from
John 8:10-11, Matthew 6:18
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