It comes in stages,
One by one
Until we asphyxiate our former selves –
Despair has a Wehrmacht of its own;
It marches onward,
Annihilates death itself
And, then, what is left
Remains not much of a mystery:
A (very, very) miserable living corpse.
Raisa Anan Mustakin’s poems have been published in the Oxford University Poetry Society, UNICEF Voices of Youth, Ekstasis Magazine, Poetry Potion, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Poets for Science, Synchronized Chaos Journal and The Beatnik Cowboy. Her poems dwell in deep introspection, wondering what it means to be a human being.