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, September 23, 2012

ANGER IN MY FISSURES by Elizabeth Hipwell


I lug my anger in the fissures of my hips, 
Thighs and stomach
Tightly stuck in the rolling 
Bumpy hillsides of my flesh
Missed my opportunity to venture saying
“This is wrong. 
You hurt me;
You invaded my most precious self.
How dare you!!
I deserve veneration.”
I am weary of carrying 
The weight of your depravities.
This is a load I can no longer grip 
Against my physique,
Inserted into the narrows of my psyche
With the illusion that I control
Everything and everyone around me…
I clutch this delusion
To save my sanity.
-Elizabeth Hipwell
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