When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
HINNAH MIANWhen I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
HINNAH MIANI am unbearably human.
HINNAH MIANI pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
HINNAH MIANShe has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
HINNAH MIANI loved each and every one of your faces.
HINNAH MIANAllow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
HINNAH MIANTear me open and rest inside me.
HINNAH MIANWe are so much more than skin can hold.
HINNAH MIANRead 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.
HINNAH MIANAnd what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIANHow does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
HINNAH MIANWhen you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
HINNAH MIANI love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
HINNAH MIANYour heartbeat is a holy thing.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
HINNAH MIANHe reminds me of the shadow between silences.
HINNAH MIAN