“Did you reflect on Cook's arrival and rue the day we were discovered and curse the coming of foreign sailors with bodies soaked in the blights of London sewers? Giving this cruel treasure to our unblemished women? Did you think of this and rage and want to kill? Did you remember all the insults down the years from French, British and American alike Did you remember the threat of their guns? I was not there during those dark days of anguish and confusion when the palace shook with intrigue and rumor that the greedy determined men downtown were plotting your ruin and demise of our nation. --from "Manawaʻino” PoetryOppressionHawaiiHawaiianQueen LiliuokalaniHawaiian OverthrowCaptain Cook Book:Hanai: A Poem for Queen Liliuokalani Source: Hanai: A Poem for Queen Liliuokalani