Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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I’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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