5 Stages of a Physical Earthquake

it is becoming unstable
Within the bedrock
Hidden beneath what is visible
To the naked eyes of earth's victims
The hopeless humans of our planet
In time are given no mercy
When Mother Nature trembles
Each moment she is pushed further
By her own tectonic plates
Floating upon her mesosphere
Cushioned by her dermal lithosphere
This molten circulation
-Though helpful to her evolution-
Has the uncanny ability
To knock the human species off its feet
In quite the literal fashion
With the most minute sense of instability
All it takes is pressure
Compression between the smallest rocks
Most miniscule of molecules
Carbon on carbon
Granite on granite
Talc on talc
Suppression of movement in any direction
Will eventually cause chaos

Chips and shards
Cracking, crumbling, decomposing
The crust of the earth weakens
Plates will not stop moving
Pressure will not stop building
Forming transverse danger zones
Inch by inch
Mile by mile
The razorblade cuts of stone grow deeper
Longer, quicker, wider
Rocks rub to dust
Fall between crevices
Compression of what cannot be condensed
Chips the foundation
Leaves it in pieces
Stability will fail at any moment
Of spontanious geological detonation

Above the creaking, groaning surface
Of that which was once whole
An accumulation of precipitation
Breaks free from its heavenly bonds
Cracked and dry in its suffering state
Every orifice of the earth
Accepts its gift of water
Penetrating the pressured wounds
Oiling the joints that refuse to move
Seconds upon minutes
Minutes upon hours
This substance from the sky
Nudges its way deep inside
Lessening the stronghold of friction
Paving the way for a chance at a tectonic-sized escape
All the price of all in its niche

A murderous hell breaks loose
As mother nature cracks her back
After being frozen in time for many moons
She is finally able to breathe
Cities fall as she grinds her teeth
Twisted metal
Falling stone
Crashing down into Earth's heart
The need to break free and scream
And dig up to the surface
Causing a ravenous rampage
Swallowing the foundations of metropolitan society
Jarring the stability of life on land
By breaking her chains once more

Returning to her slumber below
Mother Nature crawls back to her humble abode
Wedged between layers of bedrock
She realigns her cracks of crust
To return back to her previous state
Possibly causing more buildings to break
Cars to crash
People to plunge
To the depths below
Where the sun only shows
When Mother nature breaks open her scars
And quivers with a scent of death