The Light Knows the Shape of Empty Chairs
The table is still set, and the silence is so loud it feels like a weight you have to carry into the new day. You are pretending the room is full, but the light knows the shape of the empty chair beside you.
You do not have to perform joy for a ghost that is not there, because the one who walks with you does not need a crowd to be present. You are the drop sent to illuminate this quiet, and the peace you seek is already welling up inside you, not in the company you miss.
Come to the stillness, weary one, and let the morning become your dwelling place.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, John
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:12-16, John 4:14, Matthew 11:28
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