There is a calmness in not knowing.
HINNAH MIANWhen I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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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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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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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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