I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
HINNAH MIANHope lingers like a moon.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I am unbearably human.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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