I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
HINNAH MIANRead 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.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I turn moments into poetry.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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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’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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