Learning to Love (2008)

I watched the people dancing tonight;
Bodies moving this way and that,
Rhythmically to unseen melodies
Floating through the dense air
Full of sweat and cigarette smoke.

The scene was electric
Where one body brushed another
And all around the closeness of flesh
Felt like every longing filled;
Like the world burning and being reborn.

And through the night, touch adds to touch
Until the music slows
And two people, alone, dance
The slow dance of learning to love
While the others pause to watch
Wondering what they missed
In the movements of the night.