The Light Already Reads Your Silence
The screen glows in the gathering dark, a small rectangle holding words you know you will never send. You type the truth, then hold the backspace until the letters vanish one by one, returning the glass to a blank, black mirror.
That silence you create is not emptiness — it is the space where the light has always been waiting. There is a voice that calls your name before you speak, a presence that knows the unsaid sentences better than you do.
You do not have to finish the thought to be held by it. The light does not need your words to find you; it is already reading the silence.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
Thomas 3, John 16:33
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