'You are incredulously incredible! ' <br />I translated very more badly. <br /> <br />'How is the way to your heart? ' <br />You laughed. <br /> <br />'I would like very much to...' <br />I fumbled and couldn't continue <br /> <br />which was strange as we both spoke <br />perfect English <br />but I was having the difficulty of trouble <br />making myself understood...understand? <br /> <br />Oh man! <br /> <br />In the ultimatum of desperation <br />I flung away the phrase book <br /> <br />and kissed you! <br /> <br />Suddenly you understood! <br /> <br />I knew...you would! <br /> <br />*** <br /> <br />Although this poem is a surreal situation where Love suddenly takes on all the mangling of trying to speak in a language unfamiliar to you...as you reach for words to tell what it is you want to say even as the language crumbles...even as you speak... <br /> <br />Yet it is taken from real life. <br /> <br />Anu, my Finnish wife spoke better English than I so she never got around to teaching me a little Finnish and so my language longings languished. Yet still I tried! On this occassion I grabbed a Finnish dictionary and flicked through trying to create a fiendishly Finnish expression for my love...of course, even with the aid of a dictionary it still came out all stupidly stupid but she had a good laugh at my friendly Finnish failings. <br /> <br />When I grew too desperate...I resorted to the solution in the poem. <br /> <br />Suffice it to say...it worked! <br /> <br />After all, a kiss is just a kiss. <br /> <br />Something that you must...remember!<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-is-a-foreign-language/
