BEFORE I SAID YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL,THIS IS WHAT I DID.

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And I hope I made it, I hope it worked and since there are no journals that accept such papers, it has not been peer reviewed.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.