My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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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 only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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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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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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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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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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