Overbearing, rolling, shocking waves

     Loud, thunderous, raining sky

          Tsunami so large you’d be emptied of hope

               Lives lost, taken, gone

               To withstand it is not to rage

          It is not to be greater

     It is not to stop the water in freefall, 

for you cannot freeze life

I found a shell on the beach

I listened to its song

I saw it drown in tsunami waters

     Smelled the petrichor of pelting rain

          Deadly, crashing waves only made it smooth and beautiful

               Smooth, beautiful, small

               I asked, have you been here all this time?

          It ends its song

     And in the silence 

My words ring true

Just like the stone cliffs

Like the burning sun

The trembling Earth 

It was, it is, it will