Ms. Que Banh<p>Colonial soldiers,<br>what have they been doing<br>to my poetry all these years<br>when I could have easily killed them<br>in my poems<br>as they have killed my family<br>outside poetry?</p><p>Poetry was my chance<br>to settle the score with killers,<br>but I let them age outdoors,<br>and I want them to know decay<br>in their lives, their faces to wrinkle,<br>their smiles to thin out,<br>and their weapons to hunch over.</p><p>- Ahlam Bsharat, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poet</span></a> / <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DecolonizationPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DecolonizationPoems</span></a><br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ResistancePoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistancePoems</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ArtActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtActivism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MightyPen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MightyPen</span></a></p>