You Are the Reason the Light Is Here

The room feels too bright tonight because every eye seems to land on you first. You are the only one who looks like you here, and the weight of that visibility presses against your chest like a heavy coat you cannot take off.

You wonder if you belong, or if you are just a mistake in the architecture of this place. But there is a light that lives inside you which no room can dim and no crowd can define.

It was there before you walked through the door, and it will remain when you leave. You do not have to earn your space by shrinking or by performing.

The true light that gives light to everyone was already shining in you before you arrived. You are not an accident in this room.

You are the very reason the light is here.