I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
HINNAH MIANThis country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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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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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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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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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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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 love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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