Two plates unbalanced
Grinding, growing, straining
Until Tectonic Failure
Emotional fracking
Exposing our faults

Series of tremors
Until a strike-slip
Rupturing surfaces
Motion sickness
Against seismic waves

Above an epicenter
Deeply focused below
Suddenly Liquefied
Between the cracks
Towards its interior

Awaiting aftershocks
In transition zones
Seeking seismologists
Explaining scales
Of unmeasurable Magnitude