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.
HINNAH MIANWhen you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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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 am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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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 am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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