The Root That Survives The Fire
The silence at this hour feels heavy enough to crush what little is left of you. They spent years telling you who you were, stripping away your name until you believed you were nothing but the damage they caused.
But listen — there is a voice in this dark that speaks a different truth. The light entered the prison of your forgetting and said, 'Wake up.' You wept, you asked who was calling, but the answer was already inside you before the first blow landed.
You are not the ruins they left behind. You are the root that survives the fire.
The self you are rebuilding was never theirs to destroy.
Drawing from
Apocryphon of John, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 106:9-14
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