For once I want to be something that lasts.
HINNAH MIANI pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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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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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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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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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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