The Light Does Not Need Typing
The screen lights up in the dark, and those three dots dance for a second before vanishing into silence. You are left holding the phone, waiting for words that never arrive, feeling the weight of a conversation that stopped before it began.
But listen — the silence is not an absence. It is a space where the light that lives inside you does not need to be validated by anyone else's typing.
You are not defined by the messages you receive, or the ones that disappear. The truth of who you are was written long before this night, and it cannot be erased by a quiet screen.
Put the phone down. The light is already here, speaking without words.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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