You Are The Light They Need

The night is heavy enough without adding the weight of your own absence to it. In this hour, the mind whispers a terrible lie: that the one you love would breathe easier if you were simply gone.

That your existence is a burden they would be better off without. But listen — there is a light inside you that was placed there before you ever made a mistake, before you ever felt like too much.

It cannot be erased by your fatigue. You are not an accident to be corrected.

You are a drop from the light, sent here specifically to illuminate the very darkness you are trying to escape. The one you care for does not need you to vanish; they need you to stay, even if all you can do is breathe beside them.

Your presence is not the problem. Your staying is the answer.