Reawake

Once I was wide awake
Then I fell during a great quake

I heard a silent giggle
Soon I felt a slight tickle
Every living thing laughing
Insomuch they were gasping
All but the trees,
best leave them be
In their matter-of-fact tone
They've continually shown
Not even a tingling leaf
Always avoiding mischief

The animals will not cease
Laughter seems only to increase
Songbirds slapping knees
Hysterically laughing bees

The earth trembles awake;
an airborne earthquake
Flowers chuckle their jokes
Infinite, the laughter soaks
Rocks vibrate to powder
The smiles get louder
Microorganisms pitch in
invisible, but bearing a grin
The grass is uncontainable
Ground becomes unsustainable



Then earth gave birth
To a great chasm of dirt
Deep as the sea
Wholly, it swallowed me

Once I slept so sound
I fell from beneath the ground