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.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

CAPTIVE by Therese Staples Burton

I am my own captive, held within invisible walls.
Unseen yet I feel them, know they are there.
A glass house contains a part of my soul.
I move behind impregnable walls raging with inner turmoil.
Fear, angst keep me immured.
Limits placed by society force me to conform, keeping the lock on this
Prison.

Creativity that burns, glows within this glass dome.
Feel the intense need to create war with the boundaries of society.

I stand within myself gazing at all I desire.
Frustration rips my soul.
Within captivity dreams soar, lighting the sky,
Brilliant swirls, sparks flash, colors dance.
Walls crash down to enclose the glory. Walls of bondage
Created by rejection, misinterpretation and false shame.
I am my own captive, all that pulses within ready to implode,


Waiting to

Be set free.

                                                               -Image & Words by Therese
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