And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANI am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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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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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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