How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
HINNAH MIANHow do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
HINNAH MIANI loved each and every one of your faces.
HINNAH MIANI want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
HINNAH MIANI pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
HINNAH MIANI am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
HINNAH MIANI remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
HINNAH MIANI want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
HINNAH MIANLove transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
HINNAH MIANThe most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
HINNAH MIANI love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
HINNAH MIANHope lingers like a moon.
HINNAH MIANHe reminds me of the shadow between silences.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
HINNAH MIANI always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
HINNAH MIANI am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
HINNAH MIANThere is a calmness in not knowing.
HINNAH MIAN