Trust is shaken

I imagine one of the mopst terrifying things about an earthquake is not knowing if it will come again. How does one plan ones day...one's life...with that uncertainty?

Trust is shaken

© 2010 Mark Pearce

 

 

              Rumbles and shakes.

              Rumbles and shakes.

              It’s not just the buildings

              But the world that breaks.

 

              The lives that change,

              The friends that go,

              And the serenity in silence

              We will no longer know.

Author's Note

For those of you unfamiliar with my work, it's simple and nursery-rhyme like in style, but that doesn't mean it's supposed to be simple in meaning.

Obviously, my heart goes out to those in Haiti and Chile.

Reviews

[holly]

Mark, This is so applicable to any form of breaking. I read it as broken trust between two people who were close at first. The love between family members or partners broken by the many things that we can interpret or are betrayals. Your comment about Haiti and Chile made me realize that the interpretation can be, just as profoundly, about our relationship with Nature. So many writers have explored that theme, but we always need other voices in other times to remind us that we are not that important set against natural disasters. And no one could ever find your writing simple.

[Nightstar]

Mark, this was really good.

[J. Marc]

Yes, this is what time brings with it: terrible images and memories which makes us only realize with melancholy of the time of innocence where such shakes we did not know about yet, but only in tales...