Identity of Dots By Miriam Feigelman Questions of identity: Is man’s identity defined by the dots on a scatter diagram? Data points of traits and drives and trends, Neatly arranged on the x/y axis Like a beautiful piece of wood, with intricate carvings and swirly grains Reduced to a pile of sawdust? Or is it the dotcom identity? Little sparks of communications, Hit and run messages, Email threads, Facebook thumbs, Twitter tweets, Blogging egos Txting, txting, txting, in bastardized English? Or is man the infinitesimal speck In the infinite vastness of An ever expanding universe, The dot of a soul Throbbing, pulsating, yearning, Yearning and aching To fulfill its destiny, To cleave to G-d, To seize transcendence By creating legacies, Like a pebble in the ocean, With ever widening ripples, expanding, expanding Silently reverberating into Eternity? n
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