Sea Fevers

I do not live near the sea but it is in my blood, and I feel its seductive pull.

The sea is always there, surging in my blood,
Swelling like a tide, within me feelings flood,
My whole life's always revolved around the sea,
A perpetual presence that means so much to me.

I live a hundred miles from the nearest shore,
Serves to make me aware, makes me feel more,
The sea's seduction as it's daily out of reach,
Of the elation when again I stand upon a beach.

I love the sea's many moods as it ebbs and flows,
The passion it evokes in me, with the motion grows,
Until it is the very life-blood pulsing in my veins,
My soul sucks in its essence, like flowers drink the rains.

I stare at the horizon, a line 'twixt sky and sea,
The noises and the salt spray are as one with me,
Flecked white foam's atop each wave that's curled,
I feel the awesome power-pull of all seas in the world.

At home, far inland, with no sea in sight at all,
I gaze at the waves in the sea picture on my wall,
While wistfully waiting, impatient for another chance,
Sea fevers all my life have led me a merry dance.