The Crack Where The Light Gets Out
The words slipped out before you could catch them. A raw truth, unpolished and shaking, and now the afternoon feels like it's holding its breath.
You are replaying the moment over and over, wondering if they saw the crack in your armor, if they noticed the tremor in your voice. But the light does not hide behind the mask you wear for the middle of the day.
It was already there in the slip, in the stumble, in the honesty you didn't mean to show. You think you exposed a weakness.
You actually revealed the place where the light gets out. The truth you tried to swallow is the very thing that makes you real to the people around you.
They didn't see a failure. They saw a human being, finally breathing.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Matthew 10:26
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