The Light Steps Into Your Tears

You are holding your breath right now, terrified that if you exhale, the grief will spill out and make everyone in the room uncomfortable. You feel like a leak in their perfect night, a damp spot on the furniture they are trying to ignore.

But listen — the light does not ask you to contain yourself. What you are leaking is not a mistake; it is the truth of a heart that loved deeply and lost heavily.

The world may step back from your tears, but the light steps in. It saw you before you even started crying.

It knows the weight you are carrying is not too heavy for it, even if it feels too heavy for you. You do not have to apologize for the water in your eyes.

The ones who love you are not scared of your grief; they are just waiting for you to stop hiding it so they can sit with you in it.