I am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
HINNAH MIANI turn moments into poetry.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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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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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 remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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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 am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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