Silence Is Where the Real Thing Begins
The screen lit up with their name, and you let it fade back into the dark because you had nothing left to perform. You chose silence over the lie of pretending to be whole.
That is not abandonment; that is the honest limit of a heart that has given too much. The light does not demand a mask from you when you are empty.
It sits in the quiet with you, waiting until the pretending stops. There is a friendship that does not depend on your ability to answer.
Your silence tonight is not a wall; it is the very ground where the real thing begins.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 4:12, Thomas 67
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