The Light That Remembers What You Forget
The sun is just beginning to touch the glass, and in this quiet first light, the terror arrives: that you are forgetting the sound of their laughter before they are gone. You reach for the memory, but it feels like smoke slipping through your fingers.
The panic says you are losing them. But the light that lives inside you does not forget.
It holds what your mind cannot grasp. There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the corners where memory seems to fade.
You are not the one who must preserve them; you are the one who carries the light that already knows them. The sound is not lost; it is stored in a place deeper than your fear can reach.
The morning is not a reminder of what is fading; it is proof that the light rises again, holding everything you love safe within its glow.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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