This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
HINNAH MIANThis country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
HINNAH MIANI loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
HINNAH MIANI’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
HINNAH MIANRead 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.
HINNAH MIANThe most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
HINNAH MIANTear me open and rest inside me.
HINNAH MIANWhen I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
HINNAH MIANSomewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
HINNAH MIANI always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
HINNAH MIANWhen you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
HINNAH MIANFor once I want to be something that lasts.
HINNAH MIANHere I am, a mosaic of becomings.
HINNAH MIANAnd what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
HINNAH MIANI turn moments into poetry.
HINNAH MIANI remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
HINNAH MIAN