The document describes the collapse of a building during an earthquake through a series of metaphors comparing it to various fragile or unstable objects collapsing in different ways. It describes how the building, which was once constructed with care and pride, lay completely destroyed under debris with bodies crying in pain after suffering the effects of the disastrous earthquake, an event it had never anticipated.

1. SHE COLLAPSED
She collapsed like a pack of soft cards; tumbling with nonchalant ease towards
the ground,
She collapsed like briquettes of black coal plummeting rampantly; caressing the earth
at tumultuous speeds,
She collapsed like silken feathers of a protuberant pigeon; hurtling towards the soil at
swashbuckling velocity,
She collapsed like a flimsy spider web; diffusing incoherently into infinite splinters of
grey thread,
She collapsed like a stick of ice candy; melting rapidly around the periphery of bare
wood,
She collapsed like a ball of swollen paper; deflated thoroughly with a rusty iron pin,
She collapsed like a jagged rope of jute; dangling languidly from unprecedented
heights of the wall,
She collapsed like an insipid follicle of hair; adhering frigidly to the scalp,
She collapsed like a snow-white flamingo; diving down when permeated by a fleet of
pugnacious lead bullets,
She collapsed like an ultra light wire of aluminum; distorting horrendously with the
zipping second,
She collapsed like a log of loose timber; embedded with scented saw dust powder,
She collapsed like a rotund bar of glittering gold; impregnated with chips of badly
squashed pearls,
She collapsed like a pipe inundated with water; bulging incongruously at the sides,
She collapsed like a mountain of free mud; blending profusely with the clayey soil,
She collapsed like a spongy button; bouncing umpteenth number of times on the
roughened mud,
She collapsed like a pouch of chili powder; bursting irrationally into a million
particles on the floor,

2. She collapsed like a conglomerate of matchsticks; blown in entirety with
infinitesimal draughts of wind,
She collapsed like a lifeless beetle; as if stripped of its opalescent wings,
She collapsed like a lackadaisical sandwich divested of pepper; lying dilapidated and
forlorn amidst heaps of garbage,
She collapsed like a steel nugget does; when heated in swirling fires of sweltering heat,
She collapsed like a slender nib of a fountain pen; when pressed nimbly on
bonded paper,
She collapsed like a shard of tainted glass; when struck by a small sized
corrugated stone,
She collapsed like a ship incorporating scores of rooms; resting on a foundation of
white sand,
She collapsed like pallid tendrils of a parasitic creeper; sticking nimbly to the greasy
wall,
She collapsed like a chain of jingling silver; suspended apathetically from the angular
neck,
She collapsed like a rotten fruit; squelching disdainfully beneath the most negligible of
pressure,
She collapsed like a diseased snake; slithering helplessly in the sprawling creepers,
She collapsed like a stone wall hovering tentatively in the air; without the slightest of
concrete foundation,
She collapsed like whirlwinds of yellow dust; eventually mixing with the desert sand,
She collapsed like a cracked needle; emanating screeching noises while
juxtaposing with the mud,
She collapsed like the broken shell of a monstrous egg; crumbling erratically in all
directions,
She collapsed like a pierced balloon; cascading in its bedraggled shape into the
green fields,

3. She collapsed like weak water; transforming into large pools after striking the earth,
She collapsed like long noodles; breaking indiscriminately even when touched by
the faintest of heat,
She collapsed like a lifeless individual; existing on this earth without a perpetual
entity,
There was a time when she was constructed taking loads of scrupulous care; soaring
high in the silken clouds; intimately kissing the rustic breeze,
She had never dreamt of falling; neither had the tiniest of insinuation of the events to
unveil the succeeding day,
While at present she lay completely camouflaged under a mangled heap of debris;
with a large ensemble of buried bodies crying hoarsely in pain,
The building which augmented the pride of the street for many years; now lay
wholesomely decimated; gruesomely destroyed after suffering the brunt of the
disastrous earthquake.