Your Healing Is Not A Betrayal

The sun has risen, and with it, a strange guilt. You feel your own strength returning while the one you love is still in the dark.

You worry that your morning light makes you a hypocrite for having wished for their silence just hours ago. But the light does not judge you for needing rest.

It simply arrives. Like the father who saw his son from a long way off and ran before the apology was finished, grace meets you before you can explain yourself.

Your healing is not a betrayal of their pain. It is the only thing that can eventually hold it.

The light in you is not a spotlight exposing your failure. It is the ground you stand on so you do not fall when they wake.

You are not a hypocrite for surviving the night.