Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
HINNAH MIANAllow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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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 want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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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 don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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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 don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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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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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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