This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
HINNAH MIANWhen I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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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 like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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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 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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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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