You Are the Silence Holding the Recording
You hear the recording and the voice sounds like a stranger wearing your name. A performance you started so long ago you forgot it was a mask.
Tonight, the house is quiet enough to hear the difference between the act and the ache. The light does not need your voice to sound a certain way to be real.
It was there before the first word you ever performed. It is there now, beneath the tone you dislike.
You are not the recording. You are the silence holding it.
The mask is heavy, but the face beneath it has never been hidden.
Drawing from
John 3:19-21, Gospel of Thomas 3
Verses
John 3:19-21
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