The Silence Holding You Both
The voice on the phone sounds familiar, yet distant, like a room you used to live in that someone else has rearranged. You hear yourself answering, and the stranger in the reflection is you.
In this deepest hour, the silence between words feels like a canyon you cannot bridge. The light does not panic at the distance.
It sits with you in the quiet ache of becoming unknown. There is a love that knows you better than you know yourself, and it is not frightened by your changing shape.
You are not losing yourself; you are shedding a skin that no longer fits. The one who calls you by name is not the voice on the line, but the silence holding you both.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 106:9-14
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