Some good friends of mine are being married this weekend, but I will be on the Oregon coast at another wedding that day. I offered to write a short piece to send them off to their dance as a married couple. Bob is an amazing drummer, hence the theme of music and drums in my piece…One of his children will read this after their vows and before they dance…MLL
Across the room…I saw you there. There was music, a curiosity, perhaps a desire, and mystery in the air.
Across the room there was a smile, a potential friend, a possibility…but across the room felt like a mile.
Across town, I thought about you, of where we were…of our future romance. And I felt the music, felt your pulse and your soul from way across town.
And I grew to love you while hearing the sound of (not so) distant drums…
I know now what I didn’t when I was younger…and that things will be right…because I feel a certainty and the welcome presence of romantic hunger. You feel like home.
A lot of life is spent without the music inside the heart. With just moments at a time when the song fills you…I think now there is always a song present, with just moments of silence. That is the way the soundtrack of life should be…moments of quiet to reflect, but mostly the sounds of (not so) distant drums…a rhythm, a melody, and sweet harmony.
There was music during our first meeting, and our first date. Perhaps we are the music now. Perhaps you are the song within me…
Now; my hand is yours, your hand is mine. Across the room a dance floor awaits the two of us. There’s a song that’s waiting to be played…one that will soon be our song.
Might I request this dance for the rest of our lives? From this Moment…we’ll feel the beat of not so distant drums. Might we join hands and have our first dance?
Matthew Lyle Landsman 
Beautiful made me think back to when I met my husband of 38 years and the dance we are still doing and loving
Poetic, musical and flowing with love. Got me all choked up again. Nicely done Matt. You were present without being able to be there. You are magic with words.
Matt to all of us who have loved that one special person, I think of my wedding day and smile. even though things did not work the way we planned we shared 3 beautiful daughters and many happy times, our love will live on and we are still friends, on that day i remember feeling like a queen and knowing i was loved, I felt that feeling again if even just for a second, I am proud of you my friend. and I tell everyone what beautiful words you write. Matt dont ever stop reaching into your heart and placing the words on paper, the world would truely lose the best writer i know.