I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
HINNAH MIANFor once I want to be something that lasts.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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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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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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