Fatena Abu Mostafa

Last week, we ran Fatena Abu Mostafa’s “A Life That Doesn’t Know How to Live”; this week, we have another poem that opens: “I’m not okay / but I say it politely, / so no one thinks I’m asking for help.”

In this poem, by Fatena Mostafa, the narrator endures, “not out of strength, / but because even collapse has grown dull.”