I’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
HINNAH MIANWhen I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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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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