Surf's Up!

As the rain pounded on the damp sand, I watched the wind whipping
the surf into a frenzy. It is a feeling that I know all too well... The
romance of the sea, the power of it's lure... the yearning to stand
with your lover... toes wriggling in the sand as the waves lap at your
ankles... while you kiss beneath the star filled sky...

The calm fury of it's ebb and flow, the tidal force that hides so much
power beneath it's surface... a force that it steered by the moon's
pull... so much like those lovers who embrace on it's shore... for
beneath their skin, so dampened by desire and salt spray... lies a
furious passion that can power their love... until the seas are no
more...

On this day, in the pre-dawn moments and as the rain pelted my
windshield... I sat and watched in awe at the waves pounding the shore
at odd, wind swept angles. On most mornings, the sea is more quiet,
more serene... with an aire of tranquility about it... but today the
surface evidences the hidden power... the power that lies beneath the
white-caps and the foam... the mysterious power of something deep and
unknown.

I know that inside me rages such a power... I feel it in ever fiber of
my being... it is the power of love and the power of hope... it is a
quiet desire of a shared passion... that often times can be unseen
because of what's on the surface... but on occasion, at the right time
and by the right person, the power can be glimpsed... and captured
forever... with nothing more than a look or a word... because it is a
power that seeks a home... a place to be and to blossom... for love
alone is agony, but love together is ecstasy...

I think of my special someone... she knows who she is... and long that
she will find herself lost in that power... as if lost at sea with
me... feeling the waves of my love washing over and through her... as
our tidal forces move in and out with passion shared... and together we
will walk sandy beaches... even when no beach is around... because the
power of the sea is limited in that it must be between the shores...
the power of love is boundless unless... we bind it by our
actions.

The sea's greatest power is to give life... life to it's inhabitants
and life to us who breath the oxygen released by these very crashing
waves... loves greatest power is to make that life a thing of beauty...
where two people join together to create something neither could be
without the other...

Light comes across the horizon... visible through the raging storm. And
as I sit in the glass and steel cocoon that I arrived in... watching
the break of day through the glass of my roof... I realize that the
power of her love has brought light to my heart... and hope to my
life... and I believe that I have brought the same things to her.

Through the roar of the waves and the wind, I can hear her voice...
when last we spoke... and realize that like the wind gives rise to the
surface of the ocean, so too does her voice give rise to me... gives
rise to my hopes and my hopes give rise to my dreams... and my greatest
dream is indeed her.

As gulls and pelicans begin to dot the sky, oblivious to the storm, I
drop the gear shift into reverse and back away from the surf. I know
it's power will still be there... forever... I hope the woman who's
become my hearts desire knows that the power of my love will be there
for her... forever...

With a twist of my wrist, I turn on the CD player and listen as I
drive...

*****

SURF'S UP

The waves are poundin' on the sand tonight
I want to take your hand and make it feel so right
I know I'm ready and I'll never be like this again
And the sky is trembling and the moon is pale
We're on the edge of forever and we're never gonna fail
I know you're ready and we're running on the back of the wind

Chorus:

And my body is burning like a naked wire
I wanna turn on the juice, I wanna fall in the fire
I'm gonna drown in the ocean in a bottomless sea
I'm gonna give you what I'm hoping you'll be giving to me
And when the waves are poundin' on the sand tonight
I wanna take your hand and make it feel so right
I know I'm ready and I'll never be like this again
Now the sky is trembling and the moon is pale
We're on the edge of forever and we're never gonna fail

How hard, how hard, how hard do I gotta try (I want all of your
love)
Surf's up (I need it so bad),
Surf's up (I need it so bad)
Surf's up and so am I (I gotta give you some love)
Surf's up and so am I

(chorus)

Surf's up and so am I,
Surf's up and so am I

*****

Once I had given up on dreams, but I believe in them again. Without the
hope for tomorrow, life today becomes empty. Without the dream of
love... of the fulfillment that shared passions and desires can
bring... the sea becomes a place to contemplate death rather than
contemplate life. I've had enough of things dead... of empty desires
and wasted passion. I'm ready to live... forever... and offer my
dreams... my heart... my soul... to one who's part of me already...
who's heart has spoken to mine... and who lives with me today... in my
every hope and dream...

(Surf's Up is written by and copyright Jim Steinman - From his 1981
album, Bad For Good)