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, July 2, 2012

Silent Sounds by Sharon Horton

Listen
Hear
the silent sounds,
not people talking,
not people walking
across the floor, or
the closing of a door.
These are sounds
from within
the heart
the mind
where you laugh
and where you cry, 
they haunt,
taught,
grab you 
without a clue.
Suddenly
in a place
where there's no escape.
Sounds
to accept
to own
as ours alone,
could be past pain
pushing to see
the light of day,
or voices of those
lost... bringing
forth tears...
the sounds, they come,
some for only a short while,
others are constant
like a loud drum.
What brings them
no one is sure, but
through them
eventually,
we all must endure.

Sharon H.
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