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.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

BOUND by Elizabeth Hipwell



All bound up.
Twisted and tied.


How do I unravel the nuances of the past?

 What’s done is done.
That’s what they say.
Let go and move on.

 Snap snap.
Do it now.
No dwelling.
How dare you have feelings.

 Get over it.
She died two months ago.
Stop dwelling and isolating.
Get over it.

 Snap snap.
Do it now.
No dwelling.

 Feelings are feelings.
What good do they do?

 They help process and grieve what is done.
They help you move on, unburdened by the tug of the past.

 No snap snap.
No do it now.
Dwell as long as you need to until you finally let go.

 You know what it’s like
To be unburdened
To be light.

Image & Words by Elizabeth Hipwell


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