Beautiful Amidst Tears

she was crying and she was hiding her puffy face “you can’t look at me,”she says “when I cry, I look ugly” but he tilts her head up and stares into her eyes and he says “you look beautiful, you know” and he wipes one of her tears away “you always do” and he says nothing else as he holds her waits for her breath to calm he says nothing else as he kisses her face until his lips are raw from the salt and she can’t help the way that she’s no longer thinking of her tears or thinking of anything but him because suddenly she’s the prettiest girl in the world just because he says she is