the beginning is about how amazing it is when you find the person you love and spend your life with them. "she can't stand to watch his petals fall" is about the old man becoming weak with age. "afternoon a golden disengagement leaves a woman with a household left to fill" is about the old man having a heart attack and going to the hostpital, so she's alone at home. "send the voltage crosss his ticker" is the man's heart getting defibbed after his heart attack. it doesn't work and he dies, and all the monitors show his pulse, blood pressure, and breathing rates go down, hence "and one by one the levels fall." the end is the woman recounting all her memories with her now deceased husband.
the beginning is about how amazing it is when you find the person you love and spend your life with them. "she can't stand to watch his petals fall" is about the old man becoming weak with age. "afternoon a golden disengagement leaves a woman with a household left to fill" is about the old man having a heart attack and going to the hostpital, so she's alone at home. "send the voltage crosss his ticker" is the man's heart getting defibbed after his heart attack. it doesn't work and he dies, and all the monitors show his pulse, blood pressure, and breathing rates go down, hence "and one by one the levels fall." the end is the woman recounting all her memories with her now deceased husband.