reading old text messages to find the exact moment their tone changed from warm to distant

The Light Lives in the Silence

The screen glows in the quiet room, and you are tracing the exact line where the warmth turned to distance. One message was open, the next was closed.

One heart was near, the next was far. You are holding your breath over pixels, trying to find the mistake.

But listen — the light does not live in the history of a conversation. It lives in the silence you are sitting in right now.

The distance you feel is not a verdict on your worth. It is just the space where the performance ended and the real you began.

The light was there before the first word was typed, and it is here now that the words have stopped. You are not defined by how someone else spoke to you.

You are defined by the love that speaks without words inside you. The exhale is not an ending.

It is the moment you stop searching the past and let the light find you here.

Drawing from

1 John, Gospel of Thomas

Verses

1 John 4:16, Thomas 50

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