Hope lingers like a moon.
HINNAH MIANDepression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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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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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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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’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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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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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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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 want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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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 always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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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 am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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