When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
HINNAH MIANHere I am, a mosaic of becomings.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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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 loved each and every one of your faces.
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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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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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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 always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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