The Dawn Needs No Justification
You stand before the mirror and rehearse the excuse, polishing the words until they sound like strength instead of what they are: the heavy truth that you are tired. You practice the smile that says 'I'm fine' so no one will call it laziness when your hands shake.
But the light does not need your performance. It sees the exhaustion behind the script you wrote.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even when that person is too weary to speak. You do not have to explain your fatigue to be held by it.
The dawn is not waiting for your justification to break. It rises simply because the night is over.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Matthew 14:29-31
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