This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
HINNAH MIANFor once I want to be something that lasts.
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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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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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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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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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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I am unbearably human.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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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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Hope lingers like a moon.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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