Proposed by Mahmoud Al-Shaer, translated by Joud Tamimi
Messy Glossary
Term
Resistance
Texts
Proposed by Muna AnNisa Aikins
Resistance. Resistance?
Existing.
Resistant. Persistent.
On the move.
Pause.
I need silence.
But oppression screams at me.
I exist, stand, move
pulled into the struggle.
I want peace.
Not to endure, not to persevere, not to bear,
not even carry, be in resistance.
I want to be quiet. In the silence to recover and unfold,
but life whispers to me, “Scream!”
My power is where the silence starts
and my power is here, in the middle of the cry.