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

UNBIDDEN by Therese Staples Burton

The words come to me unbidden.
Provoking memories of pain.
Long buried and forgotten in the chasms of my mind.
Released images flash across my eyes.
I lose myself in time,
Sounds of reality fad in my ears.

My breath catches in my chest.
I feel the emptiness after crying,
pierce another hole in my soul.

The words come to me, unbidden.
They thrash against walls of propriety.
Silenced by societal expectations.

Energy surges through me ready to fight.
My body shakes with a need I cannot fulfill.
Frustration builds, reaching, hoping, needing relief.
The solution dances out of my reach.

The words come to me, unbidden.
Taunting me at night, riding me on the train.
I am lost in thoughts I can't explain.
-Therese
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