Earthquake

• Andrew Carlin, Grade 5
• Poetry
• 2022

The ground shakes,
Houses will break,
The earth will crumble
And make people stumble
Fires spread,
People are dead,
Children crying
People aren't smiling -
''This is getting Bad,''
Work we've done had been erased -
Everything we've done turned to waste,
People were lost,
but not our hope,
And after it finished,
We were able to cope.