Understated Love
John G. Young, M.D.
I love French films.
The French understand love.
What Hollywood shouts, the French whisper.
They don't state what they don't understand.
Love understates what it understands
and stands under what it states.
What a state to be in--
to whisper what you want to shout
when you don't know how to state
what you would understand--
if you could.
That is why love is an understatement,
understand?