I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
HINNAH MIANSeek refuge in the space between my bones.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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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 loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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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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Hope lingers like a moon.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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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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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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