shook

he shook the very ground

i walk on

and i fell a million miles

into the core of myself

i spent suns and moons

reaching to understand

reaching for him

reaching without finding

dying without rebirth

asking without answers

an endless darkness

where there was only my shadow

and me

running got me nowhere

crying couldn’t heal

begging only broke me

trying only sealed the cracks

and i was trapped

(©2017 Amy Kamala Fiske)