I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
HINNAH MIANThe most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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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 remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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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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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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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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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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