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, March 30, 2012

MY BODY by Elizabeth Hipwell

My body, 
     ripe for the taking, 
          filled with shames voice. 
Plunged into the fiery depths of self mutilation. 
My sense of self lashes out, 
     and when threatened, 
          curls inwards to my very core. 
The stress creeps upwards, 
     as if failing to reach the freedom of a hill top 
          filled with weeping willows, 
               that sway with the loaded failures of my past. 
Disintegration comes when I buckle under the stress 
          of reliving these failures. 
My shoulders pull back and settle into my body 
          opening up vessels of hope. 
I take one step at a time 
          as if walking the line of steadiness.
      -Image & Words by Elizabeth Hipwell
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