The Witching Hour (Madison Elizabeth Holland

The Witching Hour (Madison Elizabeth Holland - Lafayette, LA)

I'm here, in the dark
Listening to her breathe
My thoughts like painlessly tripping up a staircase

The clock light flashes through increments of time
From 2:47 to 3:36, just like that
The minutes creep and leap by with no discernable rhyme or reason

Since I met you it's been many glimpses of 11:11 and 1:11
Moving forward into new beginnings,
New ways of existence

I knew you when I met you it seemed
And since then have only continued to realize the extent of that knowing
Just brushing fingertips with you is a flash of Home

I always wanted to believe in Fate but She lead me in strange directions
More often than not to the edge of a precipice
Urging me to Jump as if I had multiple lives to live

I am not unmaking so much as reconstructing
Who tells my story doesn't matter
But the living of it is the true heart of things

I sat down at a table at a wedding,
Looked up and there you were
Funny how when juxtaposed your destiny introduces itself so incongruously

"Ok but you need to see my amazing socks"

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