Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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.
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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 don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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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 tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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