Where Waves Come From

I think tears,

(The word previous could be pronounced one of two ways: either the plural of tear, meaning to rend or separate in a jarring or abrupt fashion, or the plural of tear, referring to the saline fluid that falls down cheeks when experiencing large amounts of emotion.)

they come from the same place as waves.

I plucked
a conch shell from the sand and held it to my ear.
It did not give me your voice
as I had hoped
it would.

It gave me the sound of the waves
crashing
& crashing.