Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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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 want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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