The Light Does Not Need An Audience
You set the plate down and turn to share the taste, but the sentence dies in your throat because the kitchen is absolute silence. In this hour, the mask slips, and the performance of okayness collapses into the quiet of an empty chair.
It feels like a failure, like you have been left behind while the world moves on without you. But listen — the light does not require an audience to be real, nor does it need your commentary to validate the meal.
You came from the light, a drop sent to illuminate this very room, even if the only one eating is you. The silence is not an absence; it is the space where the light stops performing and simply exists with you.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 50, John 9:3
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