Light That Needs No Audience
The thought lands in your lap—small, bright, absurd—and your hand moves before your mind catches up. You reach for the phone to send it, fingers hovering over a name that isn't there anymore.
The silence in the room is not empty; it is heavy with the weight of a joke that has nowhere to go. You put the phone down.
The light does not need an audience to shine. It came from the place where light generates itself, and it returns there, unspent but undiminished.
You are not less because no one laughed. You are still the drop sent to illuminate, even in the quiet.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 50, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:8-12
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