Thank You

At rare times- on nights like tonight, words maroon me on bleak rocks of reality.

But just momentarily.

I whisper to them.
'Help me here to keep my sanity, won't you?'

I never have to plead them.
I never have to lose my dignity.
I never have to wait for them restlessly.
I never have to wonder if I can call them at such odd hours.

Like a loyal pet, they arrive at once.

Fire in them feels like warm velvet against the cold of indifference.
Sharpness in them takes bad blood out of the wounds.
Serenity in them makes me smile at little white flowers and sunshine through my window.

I never get to thank them enough.