You Do Not Have to Be Bright
The smile you wear feels like a mask glued to skin that isn't yours. You are terrified that in performing okayness, you are accidentally erasing the real face beneath the paint.
But the light does not need your performance to find you. It sees the exhaustion behind the eyes, the tremor in the hands, the truth you are hiding from the room.
There is a name written on a white stone that no one else knows — not the name your job gave you, not the name your fear invented. Just you.
The light is not fooled by the display. It is waiting for you to stop holding up the shield.
You do not have to be bright to be seen.
Drawing from
Revelation, Matthew
Verses
Revelation 2:17, Matthew 6:22
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