I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
HINNAH MIANIf you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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