The Dawn Does Not Demand a Smile
The sun is up, and the house is quiet, but your face still feels heavy with the shape of a smile you wore yesterday for people who didn't see the cracks. You carried it so long your muscles forgot how to rest, even now that the door is closed.
The light does not ask you to put the mask back on. It rises anyway, soft and unhurried, touching the parts of you that are too tired to perform.
You do not have to manufacture joy to be held by this new day. The dawn is not a demand; it is a quiet permission to let the expression drop.
The light was already there before you smiled, and it is still there now that you have stopped.
Drawing from
Matthew, Luke
Verses
Matthew 6:22-23, Luke 1:78-79
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