Before I said you were beautiful
I had talked to your fears and interviewed your peers.
I had perceived your perfume over the phone twice and watched your eyes dance shoki when you had diarrhoea.
unlike Adam, I didn't just wake and gave you a name.
I didn't just look at where the sea stopped and called it land
I listened to silence and waited till it talked back.
Before I said you were beautiful.
I had many questions fill out long questionnaires and listened without judging,when they asked why I was asking.
So now I know your three types of smiles, especially that one just before your wiles.
Before I said you were beautiful, I had taken in the air you breathed out,and quizzed it for several minutes.
Then I had the data processed for weeks.
Unlike the sun, my day did not start when I woke.
Before I said you were beautiful. There were too many things I did not know and how I wanted a speciality.
So I paused living with the plan to understand you..
And I hope I made it, I hope it worked and since there are no journals that accept such papers, it has not been peer reviewed. And the eventual presentation was just five minutes.
I recall that day at the eatery, When I knew I must speak out or die, or forever live a lie.
Then I said you were beautiful.