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, July 23, 2012

"The Deep End" by Sharon Horton

In truth
I was heading to
the Deep End, though
I knew I couldn't really swim,
out farther and farther
I descended, barely treading
before going over my head, I 
saw the life guards
distant on the shore
but I did not scream for help,
did not wave my arms about
so I was ignored,
did not seem in such distress,
they know not 
the heavy darkness
weighing me down,
I knew I would sink,
I would surely drown,
And yet, within, so much debate,
on whether or not 
to turn around.

by Sharon H.
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