Word Of the Day Challenge: Pique

The room in the attic

is not empty

it is not lived in.

The room in the attic

is not quiet

it is not warm, it is not cold.

The room in the attic

was never a home

for anyone alive or anyone dead

but sometimes there is a light in the window

and the door swings open

 then it closes softly again

 the light blinks off

upstairs in the attic of my house

where no one has have ever lived

and no one has ever died.

Yet.