The Silence Is Not An Accusation
The phone buzzed in your pocket, a ghost of a message that isn't there. You reached for it, heart racing, only to find the silence waiting on the other side of the glass.
It is the echo of the lie you told three hours ago, still vibrating in your bones like a struck bell that won't stop ringing. You are waiting for the exposure, the text that says they know, the moment the mask slips.
But the light does not wait for you to be perfect before it stays. It saw you in the moment of the lie, and it did not turn away.
It is not tracking your errors; it is holding your name. The silence in your pocket is not an accusation.
It is the space where the truth can finally catch up to you.
Drawing from
Matthew 6:22-23, Mark 5:19
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