Hope lingers like a moon.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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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 want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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I am unbearably human.
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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 always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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