When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
HINNAH MIANWe are so much more than skin can hold.
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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 am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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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 loved each and every one of your faces.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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