MISSION STATEMENT

SILENT VOICES SPEAK started out as Silent Voices: A Writer’s Workshop, as the first group at the drop-in center at the Broadway location of Community Counseling Centers of Chicago, whose purpose is to empower it’s attendees to form and attend their own groups.

We have branched out as an independent entity. We are silent no more. We say yes to the creative possibilities of life & art...

The mission of SILENT VOICES SPEAK is to give a voice to people who are disenfranchised. Many of the participants in SILENT VOICES SPEAK are also visual and/or performing artists.

Membership is open to all.
Send submissions to lizhipwell@gmail.com.

Monday, April 9, 2012

FAMILY by Elizabeth Hipwell


Family is always there.
Then it pulls away,
detaches and rips apart.
Lost with no anchor.
Alone.
No one cares.
It shows up with conditions
that are hard to meet.
I may lose myself.
I can’t get back that aspect of family that I lost,
but I can find myself again,
retrieve what is important.
I never went away.
I was always there.
I let myself vacate and I can let my self return,
stronger than ever,
determined and free.
                     -Image & Words by Elizabeth Hipwell
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2 comments:

  1. Judie I.April 11, 2012 at 1:27 AM

    I'm honored to know "self" you show as "stronger than ever, determined and free". Thanks for showing your "self" to me to see.

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  2. SharonApril 19, 2012 at 4:49 PM

    We are family to ourself...others may walk away, we may lose them..over this we often have no control..but we choose to not lose ourselves..or if we do get lost- fight to find ourself again. :)

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