When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
HINNAH MIANLiving is not living when I am living without you.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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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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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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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I am unbearably human.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
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