SILENT VOICES SPEAK: 10/26/12

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.

Friday, October 26, 2012

MY CHILD WITHIN by Sharon H.

I am here
I am there
lost within
   a bad memory,
   feel the pain
the same
   as when four years old.
holding my breath
staying silent
hoping it stops-
Please "Go Away1' I plead,
But my voice is silent
and the memories
the pain
it remains.
want to curl up
cry..........disappear...
want to be held....
   reassured
that it will pass.
I am here...physically...
but my hurt
my heart
is with that little girl
of long ago
Crying to be loved.

Sharon H.