something

i am borrowed

from crystal bone,

borrowed skin

tautened over my flesh

and all debt must be paid

i have taken the form

of the forms that are:

window/moon/star/light wave

i am a shapeshifter

that bleeds only from the eye

i want to breathe

like a flame

like the waves

like a storm

but forms do not bend

i pay with the air

strangled in my lungs