If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
HINNAH MIANYour heartbeat is a holy thing.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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Hope lingers like a moon.
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I am unbearably human.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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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 only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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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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