the specific ache of hearing a loved one say 'i love you' and feeling your body reject it as a lie because the dream's truth feels more real than their voice

Light Sitting With You In Dissonance

The words land on your skin and your nerves scream that they are false. The dream's shadow feels heavier, more real, than the voice speaking love across the room.

You are living in a split reality where the truth you feel inside contradicts the truth you hear outside. But there is a knowing deeper than your trembling heart—a knowing that sees the whole story, not just the nightmare.

The light does not ask you to believe the words before you are ready. It simply sits with you in the dissonance, waiting for the moment your body remembers what your mind has forgotten.

You are not deceiving yourself by feeling this way; you are wrestling with a lie that has taken root. The true light is already shining behind your eyes, even when the darkness feels like the only home you have left.

Drawing from

1 John 3:19-20, John 8:10-11

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