is there a scale that exists, like the richter scale, that shows how you shake up my world like a cocktail shaker, where my heart is a liquid conforming to the shape of the container, and you stir up a storm inside of me, lock me up in a cage in the midst of the storm, and let me stay in here until the wind wears me down until i am little more than an itch on your back, an empty ***** bottle, a burnt out cigarette, a tear on your sleeve, or the remnants of the candle i lit in hopes of you seeing the flickering flames inside of my skin signaling help from the burn out, and now i'm hoarding piles of dust to find remnants of you in the ashes. i'm hoarding the rubble from the earthquake you put my heart through, hoping to find some flickering flame in the midst of the chaos. i'd scale this earthquake at a nine, not exactly pinpointing my pain scale at a ten, but close enough to destroy everything in it's path. when i stare at you, i see an earthquake and i see the hands building foundations. it would be the biggest honor to have my world shaken and stirred by your very presence.