The Dawn Does Not Ask You To Shrink

The sun is just breaking the gray, and you are already editing yourself. You catch the accent rising, the rhythm of home, and you smooth it out before the sentence ends.

You make yourself smaller so you fit. So you are safe.

But the light does not need you to shrink. There was a woman who came to a well at noon because she was ashamed of her story.

She expected rejection. Instead, the light asked her for a drink and told her about water that would end her thirst forever.

He did not ask her to change her voice. He did not ask her to be someone else.

He saw the whole truth and offered her life. The dawn is not asking you to perform.

It is simply arriving. It shines on the real you, not the edited version.

You do not have to sound like them to be loved by the Light. You only have to be the one who is waking up.