I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
HINNAH MIANLiving is not living when I am living without you.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Read the scars on my body like braille, for I no longer know how to tell a story that belongs deeply to me but is no longer mine.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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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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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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