Living is not living when I am living without you.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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And what am I but the smallest of footnotes in the universe’s everlasting memoir?
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I loved each and every one of your faces.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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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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Your heartbeat is a holy thing.
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I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.
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