This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
HINNAH MIANI want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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 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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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I 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.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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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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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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