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.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

TRUDGING THROUGH THE MIRE by Elizabeth Hipwell


Trudging through the mire
Weighed down by the fear 
Of my nonexistence
And trapped memories of traumas past.
Fretful of moving forward.
Pulled down by the concrete blocks
Of my uncertainty and isolation.
Hope is knocking at the door.
Pounding, Pounding, Pounding!
It waits patiently as I wander aimlessly,
Having to go through this,
To sort through the garbage,
To uncover the precious gem
That was there...waiting...all along.
     -Elizabeth Hipwell
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
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