He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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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 pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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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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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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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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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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I’m sorry only I can both drown you and be the summer that dries it away.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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