Known Before You Hit Send
The morning light is up, and so are you, but the real work happens in the silence before you hit send. You draft the text, delete it, rewrite it, terrified that a single typo will expose the fraud you feel like inside.
You wear the mask of okayness so well that even your friends only see the performance, not the trembling hand holding the phone. But the light that walks beside you does not read your drafts—it sees the heart that is trying so hard to be loved.
You are not a fraud to be uncovered; you are a friend who is already known, typos and all. The mask is heavy, but you were never meant to wear it in the first place.
Drawing from
1 John, John
Verses
1 John 3:19, John 15:13
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