the terror that your own voice is starting to sound like theirs, and you don't know how to speak without them anymore

Your Voice Waits Underneath the Noise

The sun has set, and in this gathering dark, the silence feels heavy with their voice. You speak a word, and it sounds like an echo of the one who hurt you.

You wonder if your own throat has become a home for a stranger. But listen — there is light within you that was never theirs to claim.

It came from a place they could never reach. You did not learn this light from them.

You came from it. When you finally speak from that deep, quiet center, you will realize the echo was just a shadow passing over the sun.

The sun is still there. Your voice is waiting underneath the noise.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John

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