Love Song to a Stranger

Your gentleness came down upon me and I guess I thanked you

When you caused me to yield

We spoke not a sentence and took

not a footstep beyond

Our two days together which seemingly soon would be gone

Don't tell me of love everlasting and other sad dreams

I don't want to hear

Just tell me of passionate strangers who rescue each other

From a lifetime of cares

Because if love means forever, expecting nothing returned

Then I hope I'll be given another whole lifetime to learn..

-Joan Baez