When I call you pretty

I don’t mean you have flawless skin

Or a beautiful thin body

With faint white rosy cheeks 

I mean to say you're kind and forgiving

When I call you cute 

I don't mean you look like a baby

I mean to say you’re sweet with your words

And you’re smile makes me want to lay the world at your feet

It means I love the way you look at me with curiosity 

And the way you give people your full attention

As if every word they spoke was of the utmost importance

Makes me want to learn more about you

While I admire how your lips pressed together when you think

And how easily and effortlessly they form words

When I call you beautiful

I don’t mean you’re hair is smooth and silky

Or that your makeup today is flawless

I mean your messy natural bed hair just magnifies 

how effortlessly your inner beauty shines through

And that your natural face has this way of saying every word in your heart

And your heart is so beautiful it composes whole symphonies

And when I call you sexy

I don't mean your outfit is provocative

I mean the fierceness in your soul suits you so perfectly 

That I forget you are human

I mean there is not enough time in the day

To draw all your beauty

And I am not perfect 

So I can not draw perfection 

But i can show you a mirror

And show you the closest thing to perfection