I turn moments into poetry.
HINNAH MIANThis country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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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 you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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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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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 unbearably human.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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