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.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

SIREN SONG by Therese


Forming music in my brain.
Just can't get it into paint.
Rhapsody in raucous reds.
Midnight blues, furious hues.
Devilish noises resound in my head.
Lips silenced by society's dread.
One does not talk of mental ills.
Just be polite, and take your pills.
On a good day the world is grey.
A flaccid smile upon my face.
A mask to hide the thunderous roll.
Drums beating and lightening's flash.
Destruction of any calm I had.
Lulling siren of the deep dark dream.
She croons a lullaby.
Bewitched I cannot look away.
Grasping me gently in her devious hands.
Struggling babe in beguiling arms.
I slip into a pallid daze.
                                  -Image & Words by Therese                          
           (Originally published in TURNING CORNERS)    
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