When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
HINNAH MIANI am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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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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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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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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I am unbearably human.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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