The Secret Name Beneath The Mask
The room is loud with praise, and you are holding your breath, waiting for someone to point at the mask and call you a fraud. You smile while your insides scream that you are empty, that the light has left you behind.
But the light does not need your performance to shine — it was there before you put the armor on. There is a secret name written on a white stone that no one else knows, a truth about you that exists beneath the applause.
You are not the role you play; you are the child who is known even when the crowd is wrong. The terror of being found out is just the shadow trying to hide the fact that you are already seen.
Drawing from
Revelation, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Revelation 2:17
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