Silence Cannot Extinguish the Light Within
The sun is up, but your eyes are still locked on those three dancing dots that never become a word. You have decided that your silence is a weapon, a way to make them feel the weight of your absence.
But the sun rises anyway, indifferent to your strategy, spilling gold across the floor whether you speak or not. There is light within you, and if you do not bring it forth, it will not save you—it will consume you from the inside out.
The light is not waiting for a reply to exist. It is already splitting the wood of your morning, lifting the stone of your quiet rage.
You are not being punished by the silence; you are hiding the very thing that could end it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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