I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
HINNAH MIANAnd what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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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 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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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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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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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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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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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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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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