The Dawn Does Not Ask for Composure
The water is loud enough to hide the sound, but it cannot hide the weight you carried into the stall. You cried so they wouldn't have to hear you break.
You thought silence was a gift to them. But the light does not need your quiet to love you.
It was there in the steam, in the tears that mixed with the spray, in the exact moment you thought you were alone. The morning is arriving not because you held it together, but because the night is over.
The sun rises on the ones who wept and the ones who slept. You do not have to scrub the sadness off before you walk out that door.
The light sees you wet and weary and says: come. The dawn does not ask for your composure.
It only asks for your presence.
Drawing from
Luke 7:38, Matthew 5:4
Verses
Matthew 5:4
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