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, November 19, 2012

CHILD OF A STORM by Kelly Greenwood


I am in a place that requires a solo scavenger hunt
I need to work deep down below the surface
Of the darkest of waters
And find myself, excavate my soul
From the ruins of the last ship-sink
My revenge is to find solitude
Somewhere I can lick the salt from my wounds
And the water in my eyes won't turn to dust
The walls a thin sheet of ice
A membrane of memories
Survives the sub tropic sound waves
Wash ashore, head for home
Before the storm breaks
I am a professional
Capsize in the rain
While thunder barrels down the shore
This is how you earn your stripes
Gold, leaden-blue gathers strength
Against resistance
Tipping over pipe bombs
Somewhere in the distance
My hand like a machine gun
Words licking my brain like a tongue
Hot wet kiss then let’s go
Long enough for it to linger
In the silent halls like lingo
Count the spare inches
On one finger
Itchy on the trigger
Pull you near
Chase you for sport
You’ll run for fear
Undercover like the cops
I dread the impending prosecution,
But I've hurt everyone
That’s ever tried to get close
Towed the line, took a chance
My thumb is out
Waiting to catch that speeding train
You’re still waiting to dance
The lack of tolerance makes you numb
To the things about me that
You wouldn't understand
Things you couldn't understand
Things you shouldn't understand...
Been tearing down walls
And building a moat
For eight and a half centuries,
What makes you think I'm gonna stop now?
What makes the heat inside warm
When the cold dark rain
Catches you off guard
The swelling vacant mist
Offered in gun powder
Saturate the screen
Teach me to run
While my lips bleed
Talking to me like I'm an infant of god
A child of storm
The war is won,
But the battle has just begun.
-Kelly Greenwood




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