We Are Kind People

We are kind people
We have worn our diamond voices
Down to coal and breathed fire
In the spring our love letters
Are aching from the rain
The light from our sun embalms us
And the breeze seals the bodies away.

The touch of a nail
Or a tooth
Electric in our veins
Red-eyed in the night
While the day just passes by.
It is not anger, but love.

I promise the next time I open this door
I will walk through it.
I will close it behind me and never look back.