Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
HINNAH MIANMy silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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I’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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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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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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