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.
HINNAH MIANI want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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I am unbearably human.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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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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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I 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.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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