The Light Sees The Face Beneath
You laughed a little too loudly yesterday, and now the echo is the only thing you can hear. You are replaying the moment, searching for the crack where they saw through the mask you wore so carefully.
But the light does not need your performance to find you—it was already there, sitting in the chair beside you, watching you pretend to be okay. There is a truth inside you that is louder than your forced laughter, and it knows you are tired.
You do not have to hold the pose anymore. The mask was never the point; the face beneath it was.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 77
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