I turn moments into poetry.
HINNAH MIANWhen you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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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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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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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I like to trace the ghosts of your fingers on the back of my hand. They read- I don’t know how to hold without you.
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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 pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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