The Light Remains When Applause Fades
The room is quiet now. The noise has faded, and in the sudden stillness, you feel a strange hollowness, as if the person you were during the performance has vanished with the applause.
You wonder who remains when the stage lights go dark. But listen — the light does not depend on the crowd to exist.
It was there before the first note was sung, and it remains now that the last echo has died. There is a name written on a white stone, known only to the one who receives it, a secret identity that no audience can ever see or take away.
You are not the mask you wore today. You are the quiet, steady light underneath.
Drawing from
Revelation, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Revelation 2:17
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