Spellbound

I spent the entire day inside, watching it rain. Just watching. Watch is just one vowel away from witch, I said to the cat at one point. But then I said the words aloud again and again - watch witch watch witch watch witch - and realized, shortly after the cat turned her ears back and started giving me that you're-off-your-rocker look, just how wrong I was. Still, I kept watching. Grey rain. Grey sky. Yellow leaves falling. Letting go. Being released. Given the means to descend. And so brightly.