Wow, the title says it all right? It’s a beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda. Read it, memorize it, and say it to her with passion.

Naked
By Pablo Neruda

Naked, you are simple as a hand,
smooth, earthy, small…transparent, round.

You have moon lines and apple paths;
Naked, you are slender as the wheat.

Naked, Cuban blue midnight is your color,
Naked, I trace the stars and vines in your hair;
Naked, you are spacious and yellow
As a summer’s wholeness in a golden church.

Naked, you are tiny as your fingernail;
Subtle and curved in the rose-colored dawn
And you withdraw to the underground world

As if down a long tunnel of clothing and of chores:
your clear light dims, gets dressed, drops its leaves,
And becomes a naked hand again.

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