I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
HINNAH MIANThis country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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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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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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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 want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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