The Light Inside Your Silent Mask
The room is loud, and you are laughing at the right moment, but the sound feels like it belongs to someone else. You are sitting right there, surrounded by people who know your name, yet you feel like a ghost haunting your own life.
The mask fits so perfectly that no one sees the silence screaming behind your eyes. But listen — the light does not need a crowd to find you.
It sees you in the hollow space between the joke and the laughter. You are not invisible; you are just hidden in plain sight, waiting for the moment you realize the light was never dependent on being seen by others.
It was already shining from within, untouched by the noise, untouched by the loneliness. The darkness of this room cannot extinguish what you carry.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 16:33
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