The Light Beneath Your Hollow Breath

You lie perfectly still, terrified that the rhythm of your breathing will betray the hollow space inside you. You think if you move, the person beside you will feel the emptiness radiating from your bones.

But the light does not need your performance to be real. It was there before the hollowness arrived, and it remains underneath it now.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world even when you are pretending to be asleep. You do not have to manufacture a pulse for the love next to you to survive.

The truth you are hiding has already been seen, and it has not driven anyone away. What you are trying to conceal is not a disqualifier; it is the very place where the light is waiting to be brought forth.

Stop holding your breath. The hollowness is not the end of you; it is just the space where the next thing grows.