When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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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 am unbearably human.
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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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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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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 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.
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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 turn moments into poetry.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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