How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
HINNAH MIANHow do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
HINNAH MIANFor once I want to be something that lasts.
HINNAH MIANI love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
HINNAH MIANI want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
HINNAH MIANAllow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
HINNAH MIANSeek refuge in the space between my bones.
HINNAH MIANDepression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
HINNAH MIANI am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
HINNAH MIANHow does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
HINNAH MIANLiving is not living when I am living without you.
HINNAH MIANI 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.
HINNAH MIANHe reminds me of the shadow between silences.
HINNAH MIANI remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
HINNAH MIANSomewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
HINNAH MIANSomewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
HINNAH MIANAnd what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
HINNAH MIAN