Tectonic Plates

There was stillness,
lasting stillness.
Then a shift,
a shudder perhaps,
almost imperceptible.
Something slowly changed
the ebb and flow of energy,
and the tectonic plates
began to splinter,
break apart,
revealing surfaces like old wounds,
old sediments,
the bones of deaths endured,
their roots deep.

Light began to break
through the cracks
revealing their history,
freeing
what lies beyond.

Into this openness,
into this trembling space
he said: "I love you."