And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANHow does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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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 loved each and every one of your faces.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I am unbearably human.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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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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