Isn't It?

And isn’t it enough
That I clung to you in the flood

as the markets began to ferment

Souring the very thing

that I was
Somehow, there is less of me,
I still feel superfluous.

To be the first
losing traction due to the gloss
you put over everything

nothing shines when luminosity

is a fallacy, a replica of the breaking day

opening and spilling over
Trying so hard to permeate.

Kelly Curiel
February 29, 2008