The Light Does Not Agree With Your Regret
The room is quiet, but your mind is loud with the replay. You see their face falling again, and the old story tells you that you were cruel instead of brave.
In this deepest hour, the silence feels like a verdict. But the light does not agree with your memory.
It enters the prison of your regret and whispers: wake up from the deep sleep. You are not defined by the moment your courage looked like pain to someone else.
The face that fell was real, but the love that held you both is realer. You did not break them.
You were simply standing in the truth, and the truth sometimes stings before it heals. The light is here in the dark with you, holding the whole scene without flinching.
It knows you were brave. Rest now.
The night is long, but the morning does not need your apology to arrive.
Drawing from
Apocryphon of John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Apocryphon of John 25:16-19
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