And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANI loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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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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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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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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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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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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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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