Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
HINNAH MIANHere I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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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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 loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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I am unbearably human.
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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 always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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