I am unbearably human.
HINNAH MIANI want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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I am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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I pocket grief and it beckons me like a lover.
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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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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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Living is not living when I am living without you.
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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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Depression is the way my eyes have learnt how to close more than open.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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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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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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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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