The Light That Will Not Leave

The silence at this hour is loud enough to make your skin crawl. You are lying here convinced that if the people you love saw the truth of what you did, they would turn away in disgust.

You are sure your failure has made you untouchable. But there is a story of a woman caught in the very act, dragged into the light by accusers who wanted her dead.

They held the stones. They knew the law.

They were ready to recoil. And the light did not drive her out.

It bent down. It waited for the crowd to leave until no one was left to condemn her but her own shame.

Then it spoke the only verdict that matters: 'Neither do I.' The light knows exactly what you did. It knows the depth of it.

And it has not moved an inch away from you. You are waiting for a rejection that will never come.

The door is not locked from the outside.