Enough Is An Adjective

For millions of years

enough

slept in every shadow.

Then we discovered

greed and grammar;

promises that smelled of rot

before the first word left our mouths.

And the silence began

to eat itself,

gnawing at the bones of civilization,

and the marrow of you,

quietly,

insistently,

while you danced like a madman,

exhilarated by your own decay,

your cleverness writhing like worms

beneath the skin of irrelevance.