I turn moments into poetry.
HINNAH MIANAnd what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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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’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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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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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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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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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.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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