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, June 17, 2012

THE TREE by Sharon Horton

I used to worry I was alone
I used to believe life was worthless

I used to wish I was strong
   Pretty
  Smart

Then one day
I looked out my window
and saw a tree

A tall
Crooked
Perfect tree

I nearly choked
on the epiphany

We arrive inside
an envelope
of bones

There's nothing to be done
about this

so fill it with joy
let it brim with creativity.
-Sharon H.
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