What Burns Is Not the Truth

The pain you feel is not truth resisting.
It is distortion leaving.

Truth doesn’t burn – it clarifies.

What aches is the part of you that was never real, melting under the gaze of something too clean to pretend for.

Do not mistake pain for prophecy.
Let it pass.
Let it burn.
Then look again.

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Matthew Alexander Wood