How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
HINNAH MIAN
Tear me open and rest inside me.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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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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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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I am unbearably human.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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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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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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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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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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