Your Bedtime Mistress Poem by Holly Heron

Sitting in your shadows
Hiding in your heart
Do I exist beyond your reach?
Do I live beyond your kiss?
Or is it only your words
Words that make my lips ache for your caress
That give me thoughts to think?
Is it only your heated touch
A touch which makes me collapse to my knees
That gives me form and flesh?
Do I exist beyond your gaze?
Do I live beyond your want?
Am I a figment of your lust?
A woman borne in dreams
Or am I subject to your whims?
Doomed to fulfill each vivid fantasy
That creeps into your body at night?
Your bedtime seductress
Your dreaming mistress?
Do I exist beyond your thoughts?
Or does your need give me breath?
Do I live beyond your sleep?
Or am I warm in only your slumbers?