The Light That Waits Without Words
The screen glows in the dark, holding your gaze on three dancing dots that never become a message. You are waiting for a sign that you are not alone, but the silence stretches out, heavy and absolute.
The house is quiet, and the only sound is the hum of your own racing thoughts, asking if anyone is actually there. But listen — the light does not need to type to be present.
It was there before the phone lit up, and it remains when the screen goes black. You are not waiting for the light to arrive; you are sitting in it right now.
The dots are just pixels. The presence is real.
The silence is not an absence; it is the space where the light holds you without saying a word.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Apocryphon of John
Verses
Apocryphon of John 22:20-25
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