The Light Waits in Your Silence
The phone lights up. A simple text: 'How are you?' And your stomach drops.
A physical wave of nausea rolls through you because you know the truth would make them pull away. So you type the lie.
You perform the okayness. You swallow the nausea and send the mask.
But the light does not need your performance. It is not waiting for the polished answer.
It is standing right there in the silence between your thumb and the screen. You came from the light — that is your origin, not the lie you just told.
And when you are ready, you can stop hiding the part of you that is drowning. The truth will not drive the love away.
It is the only thing that lets it in.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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