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The Dot

The Dot

Cheryle Cerezo-Gardiner, October 21, 2017


A single dot
Small, insignificant
A mistake?
I think not.

For are we not all
A single dot?

Do we not each
Stand alone?

The center of our own universe.

Children’s books
Have dot-to-dot drawings -
1, 2, 3, 4, …. 30, 31, 32…

Connect the dots.
Make a picture.
What is it?

You and you and I - each of us
Is a dot.

Connect us
A common interest
A common religion
A common nation, ethnicity, language
What picture do we make?

Now connect us
Different interests
Different religions
Different nations, ethnicities, languages
Now what picture do we make?


The dot is our common humanity.

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