Saltwater and Silence 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.

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.

Balancing softness with sharpness, Saltwater and Silence 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.