My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
HINNAH MIANI always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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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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