Commandments

Bright blues.
Sea shorn by flecks of gold.
Drown here. Make like a bottle
& swallow my stories. Float
unto shores I will never run,
reach, or erode.
Open. At the neck. Sing.
Something
baptismal
but without any tales
not evident in the blood.
Not for nothing. I bleed
for you. Believe in me.
I bleed.