Your words

Your words
Drift to me from across vast ocean
Rocking me in sweet serenade

Your words
Velvet, wrap me in their warmth
A soft balm to my aching skin

Your words
Hold me in the dark of night
When no other life stirs

Your words
Enraptured me poetess
Make me slave to your mistress

Your words
Quench this agonising thirst
With their cool, soothing fluidity

Your words
Sustain me through life’s trials
When I cannot turn to those around me

Your words
Are those of a stranger
But also more intimate than any lover

Your words
I love them
And what they do to me

But they will only ever be
Your words.