Of Diamonds and Toads (Revision)

[kolemath]

I swallowed the secret
that swims in my stomach
like a school of darting tadpoles. i like the shift in plurality, from singular secret to plural tadpoles; it complicates the secret as multifaceted 
These words we speak when we must darting words, cool, like you're unsure what to say

not speak.

So, we make up stories. Once not too sure of this line break. prob drop once altogether 

there was a child who sang diamonds
and another who croaked toads. good connection to tadpoles, but how do diamonds connect to the metaphor?
We nod our heads, impatient for the moral,
as when we wait for dessert after dinner— moral=dessert?
sweet to cover the bitter, sweet
to make us forget. ok morals are like deserts, but the shift to diamonds and human meal sequences is a bit distracting

Truth burns inside with a blue flame
like sulfur on my fingertips.
This is the secret I cannot tell:
there are not two children but one.

You are long dead is you for the other child? if so, the shift from 3rd to 2nd is confusing. you're addressing the reader all of a sudden?
and my tongue still roils
beneath this sediment. i guess sediment works since we're talking tadpoles 

glad to read a post from you