quiver

.

thunder has struck me

thunder has blurred my lines

I did not see the storm

nor have I felt the rain on my skin

the wind did not blow through my bones

but the earthquake has swallowed me up

all those years have passed

and without feeling anything under my fingers

still

I got burned by the fire

without ever walking on the grass

still

I smell it from underneath

the dirt covered me . ground eating me whole

through decades I still have not reached

can’t climb out

from something that never was

but still felt lost

.