For once I want to be something that lasts.
HINNAH MIANSeek refuge in the space between my bones.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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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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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Read 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.
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