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.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

TO NOT LOVE by Tanjila Pettis

Forgiveness is supposed to be a traditional blessing,
Filling all the emptiness of a once loved heart,
Contradictory as it may seem.
Who are we to say that I or you have the right?
No power to perform such immaturity.
Is not a lie the buying of a conversation?
Even if the conversation ends in betrayal.
For bad would not know what it is without good.
Up would not know its direction without down.
Is the punishment not just,
Even if the lesson is never learned.
One shall never truly know, 
For not knowing might be the very perfection
Of which its deceit is born.
If life gave one every answer to one’s questions,
What would be the reason to finding out what life truly is?
Today I awoke with a mischievous mind,
And fate directed or was it my belief 
The nerves which flowed through this questionable,
But hollow house.
For note that this is only my theory of space.
Touches of inadequacy pleases the desires of content
To be desirable of course.
Equal yet different, but yet the same.
Same but lost in communication.
Innocence cannot judge 
For judgment isn’t made by one who is noble,
But by one who knows how to truly forgive.
May no tear shed without notice.
No touch felt without passion.
No words without meaning,
Be your reason to not love. 
-Tanjila Pettis

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