Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
HINNAH MIANI pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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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 have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
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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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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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