Saltwater and Silence

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(32 32 36 1)>Saltwater and Silence</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(32 32 36 1)> is a haunting and tender exploration of love loss and the quiet fractures that shape us. In this collection Elissar Mustapha weaves raw honesty with lyrical precision capturing the intimate weight of heartbreak memory and identity.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(32 32 36 1)>From the ache of silence between lovers to the restless pull of longing each poem pulses with vulnerability-an unflinching look at what it means to stay to break and to slowly rebuild. The collection moves through the spaces of grief devotion resilience and self-discovery tracing the echoes of relationships that wound and the fragile hope that lingers after ruin.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(32 32 36 1)>Balancing softness with sharpness </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(32 32 36 1)>Saltwater and Silence</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(32 32 36 1)> is both a requiem and a reckoning. It is for anyone who has carried unspoken pain questioned their place in love or sought beauty in the act of survival.</span></p>