The Dawn Does Not Ask You to Remember
The sun is up, but your hands feel empty in a way the daylight cannot fix. You are trying to remember the specific weight of their hand in yours, and the silence where that memory should be is terrifying.
The details are fading, and it feels like losing them all over again. But the light does not require your perfect recall to remain present.
It knows the shape of what you have lost even when you cannot trace it yourself. You do not have to hold on to the memory for the love to still be real.
The dawn is not asking you to remember; it is simply offering you a place to stand while you grieve.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, Mark 5:19
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