The Light Waits Beneath Your Mask
The room is quiet now, but the echo of your own performance is still ringing in your ears. You smiled when they needed you to smile, you nodded when they needed you to agree, and you left the real you locked safely behind a door no one tried to open.
It feels like a betrayal of your own soul to be so known for a mask and so unknown for a heart. But listen — what you are looking for has already come.
The light is not waiting for you to take the mask off; it is already sitting with the person underneath. You do not have to explain the performance to be loved.
You only have to admit it exists. The silence is not empty; it is the space where the act ends and the truth begins.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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