typing out a long confession of loneliness to someone who left, then deleting it letter by letter until the screen is blank again

The Light Sees What You Deleted

The room is quiet now, but your fingers are still trembling from the words you just erased. You typed it all out—the loneliness, the ache, the need—and then you deleted it, letter by letter, until the screen was blank again.

You think this silence means you are alone. But the light sees the empty screen, and it knows exactly what was written there before you hid it.

It does not need the message sent to know your heart. There is a love inside you that is greater than the silence of the room, a presence that holds you even when the words vanish.

You did not delete your worth when you cleared the text. The light remains in the dark room, sitting with you in the unsent confession.

Drawing from

1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 77

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