Love Is Not A Trap You Set

The room is quiet now, and the words are stuck in your throat, heavy with a fear that sounds like truth. You are afraid that if you say 'I love you,' the answer will be a soft pity rather than a burning desire.

That they will stay because they feel sorry for your heart, not because they are drawn to it. But listen — the light does not do pity.

Pity keeps its distance; it observes the wound from afar. The light runs toward the mess while you are still a long way off.

It does not calculate the cost of your need before it embraces you. If the light is in them, their response to your honesty will never be mere obligation.

Love is not a trap you set by speaking; it is the ground you both stand on. The risk is real, but the fear is lying about the outcome.

Speak the truth, and let the light sort out the rest.