This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
HINNAH MIANI am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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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 pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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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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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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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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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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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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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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