I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
HINNAH MIANWhen you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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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 loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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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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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I turn moments into poetry.
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I am unbearably human.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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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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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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