You Are the Silence Holding the Voice
The room is quiet now, but your own voice on the recording still feels like a stranger speaking your name. It sounds too loud, too false, like an imposter wearing your skin.
In the gathering dark, that disconnect feels like proof you are fooling everyone. But listen — the voice you hear is only the echo of the fear, not the truth of who you are.
There is a light within you that lights up the whole world, hidden in the very flesh you are ashamed to hear. It was there before you spoke a word, and it remains when the recording stops.
You are not the crack in the voice; you are the silence holding it. The light does not need a perfect sound to shine through.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Gospel of Thomas 77
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