The Great Tumble Poem by henry igbinedion

In a sudden spasm
She convulsed, fury vented
Hillside, slope side,
All tumbled in a cataclysm of shredded timbers
And clanging china

With juddering quivers,
She spewed forth her insides,
Palace and Hovel,
Cascaded undignified,
As chaos wedded
In a union of broken flesh and twisted metal

Surreal silence…stabbed by shrill screams
Of the maimed and the dying, birthing
A cacophony of echoes
As Racing sirens and rotored birds clattered for space,
In the race of the Samaritans

Amidst the bedlam of the dying and the dead,
Diggers and Tippers raced for space, as
Gnawed fingers burrowed warm flesh
From a sandwich of fire, smoke, and cindered walls