Whethering

Joy Asamoah

It is our fear of your perception that demands we fall apart quietly, never publicly. It is in those moments where we become scattered into an array of pieces, That is the time where we birth creation.

Our art lurks in our crevices,

It lurks in the fragments of ourselves we’ve been severed from, And the ones that remain.

To create is our final act of protest,

We will make a masterpiece out of what has broke,

We will form a revolution with our tongues,

Knowing our words are as immortal as we will never be

Joy Asamoah

Joy Asamoah is a writer, poet, and a creative. She’s a spoken word artist from Gahanna, Ohio, and writes poems for The Amistad. Asamoah writes and performs her poems to challenge norms, to advocate for human rights, and to address the social issues that plague the world. She will continue to use her poetry to break silence on the issues in marginalized communities and to advocate for the liberation of those who are oppressed.