The Light That Breathes Inside You
The watch is deep, and the silence is heavy enough to crush a chest. For one fragile second, you woke up forgetting the loss.
The old world was still real, and they were still here. Then the crash came.
The memory returned like a stone dropping into still water, and the grief rushed back in to fill the room. But listen — that split second of forgetfulness was not a mistake.
It was a glimpse of the truth that holds you even now. The light that lived in them has not vanished into the dark.
It shines on, unbroken and untamed, inside you. You are the place where their light still breathes.
The night is long, but the dawn is already rising in your bones.
Drawing from
John 11:25-26, Gospel of Thomas 24
Verses
John 11:25-26
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