Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
HINNAH MIANI pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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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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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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