The Light Sees Behind The Mask
The room is loud, and you laugh at the right moment, but the sound feels like it belongs to someone else. It comes from your throat, yet your chest remains hollow, a quiet room behind a busy face.
You are performing okayness so well that no one sees the exhaustion hiding in plain sight. But the light does not need your performance to find you.
It sees the gap between the smile and the silence, and it loves what is behind the mask. There is a truth that lives inside you, and it will be with you forever, whether you are laughing or weeping.
You do not have to hold the act together for the light to stay. The mask is heavy, but the face beneath it is already known.
Drawing from
2 John, Matthew
Verses
2 John 1:2, Matthew 6:23
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