Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
HINNAH MIANDepression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
HINNAH MIANThis foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
HINNAH MIANLiving is not living when I am living without you.
HINNAH MIANAllow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
HINNAH MIANAnd what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANI love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
HINNAH MIANSomewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
HINNAH MIANI remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
HINNAH MIANI am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
HINNAH MIANI 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.
HINNAH MIANWhen you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
HINNAH MIANHope lingers like a moon.
HINNAH MIANI am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
HINNAH MIANThis country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
HINNAH MIANI loved each and every one of your faces.
HINNAH MIANWe are so much more than skin can hold.
HINNAH MIAN