Earthquake

Earthquake

The ground starts breathing like a beast in pain

Deep in the dark where the fault lines strain

Steel in the skyline starts to bend and bow

Something underneath is waking now

Concrete cracking like a frozen scream

Buildings swaying like a broken dream

Streetlights flicker, then they fall apart

Like a pounding drum inside the heart

The earth shakes—no warning sign

Splitting stone right down the line

Walls come down, glass explodes

Nothing stays where it used to hold

Windows shatter in a rain of light

Dust and echoes fill the night

Sirens crying through the broken air

Nothing’s steady, nothing’s there

The ground won’t stop, it’s alive and mean

Turning order into a wrecked machine

Foundations crumble, towers sway

Everything solid gets torn away

The earth shakes—no mercy, no grace

Pulls the city out of place

Steel and stone lose their name

In the roaring, rising flame

When it ends, there’s silence left behind

Just twisted metal and fractured time

And all that stood so tall and proud

Is just a memory under dust and cloud