I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
HINNAH MIANThis brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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Tear me open and rest inside me.
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I remember when I was the only sin you liked to kiss.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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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 love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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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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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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Love transcends oceans and I love you in every country we are both made of.
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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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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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This foundation can only take the beating of one heart.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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