The Terrible Miracle of Earthquakes

People remain in an agony
Of interpretation of a world
That they are convinced communicates,

Or rather, endeavors mightily
To communicate to them, its pain
And disappointment and desperate

Warnings of still worse things yet to come.
God or gods or the scarred world itself
Must be trying to send a message,

A terrible, inarticulate,
But exceedingly urgent message
To reform our social behaviors

Somehow. Or else. Or else another
Natural disaster or many,
All presumably efforts to talk.