I like to trace the ghosts of your fingers on the back of my hand. They read- I don’t know how to hold without you.
HINNAH MIANI 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.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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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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.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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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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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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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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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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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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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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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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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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