A Letter from the Earth to an Earthquake

A letter from the earth to an earthquake

At 1.0 magnitude, I barely felt anything

Just a crush really

I mean

You’re poetic, I’ll give you that

You know how to move me

That’s what made me fall for you in the first place

You can paint new mountains against my landscapes and

Fill empty holes with fresh water

Move me like I’m the ebb and you’re the flow

3.0 Magnitude:

You raised your voice at me

Said I was only here to create you

We went out for dinner on Saturn afterwards

I forgave you

5.0 Magnitude:

I told you my secrets

Where I kept the oldest of building and the most peaceful of people

 But you figured out how to break my spine

Threw your plates at the walls

And still thought you are creating a masterpiece out of broken glass.

6.0 Magnitude:

You keep trying to change me

Keep trying to get under my skin

 Be my skin

You dig holes in me and say

“It’s just the Grand Canyon,

The Marianas Trench,

People will love it”

Don’t you think you’ve made enough holes?

Can’t you understand what you do is create catastrophes?

8.0 Magnitude:

This was full-on impact

I didn’t see it coming

Even though you’ve been doing this forever

I still can’t believe it

You hit me with landslides and crevasses

Death tolls

Tsunamis

Shadow zones

Blind thrusts

You made me think I deserved it

That I created it all by myself

Post- Shock:

I’m sick of being the ground you think you can pave over

You are nothing but a shift in my mood

A tectonic fault

I’m not shivering from pleasure anymore

You are clumsy,

self-centered

You think you are the core that holds me together, but I am a thousand times larger than that

There’s a reason they don’t name earthquakes

You were never worth naming

You were never able to hold these oceans together

(s.b)