I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
HINNAH MIANI always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
HINNAH MIANI love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
HINNAH MIANHow does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
HINNAH MIANWe are so much more than skin can hold.
HINNAH MIANI loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
HINNAH MIANI don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
HINNAH MIANI love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
HINNAH MIANWhen you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
HINNAH MIANSeek refuge in the space between my bones.
HINNAH MIANDepression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
HINNAH MIANHow do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
HINNAH MIANTear me open and rest inside me.
HINNAH MIANI’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
HINNAH MIANSomewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
HINNAH MIANI don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
HINNAH MIANI have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
HINNAH MIAN