Lovers who, decades ago, first heard this song
As, awestruck, they gazed into each other’s eyes
On a ballroom dance floor, where the marriage
Of words and music first gave them a language
For the power that had swept them up beyond
Everything they knew, or thought they knew,
And staggered them with the sudden recognition
Of what the world could be, what life could be,
And what it could mean to look into the eyes
Of one special person, and of how, in the end,
All of life could come down to the simple fact
Of touching each other, holding each other tight,
And gazing, rapt, into each other’s eyes,
Are crumbling now, or already crumbled, to dust.