The location never changed
but there was a snap change in
My surroundings and how they felt
A switch went off in my head and
Suddenly this was not the place with
Forbidden memories and ghosts.

The red changed hue and saturation
Suddenly becoming red2
And the bland off-white walls that
Were painted in so many memories
And looked like the bones of all
Our skeletons
Suddenly became off-white2.

Not even the bed felt the same
As suddenly it felt as comfortable
As the catcher’s mitt boys always dream of
Sleeping within.

A temple of demons became home again
Overnight.

It was the lack of you,
Your ghost has shut the hell up
And skeletons no longer banged in the closets
Or on the couch
And suddenly I was the master of this domain again.

You fell out of my head
Or somehow
I fell out if the boyish desires
And a new freedom was found in me.