When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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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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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I love you the way rain falls on a sunny day- a kind of marvelous sadness.
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