Dot To Dot
Mama that black dot
You so lovingly put
On my forehead as a child
Will it protect me mama?
From all the evil eyes!
Is it the first dot of life
That joins all the others
To make sense of life mama
When I see all of this strife!
As I join my thoughts and feelings
A dot I make to stare at on paper
As words pour out, blotting ink
The dots were blurred mama
Till they took hold of my feelings
Like those far away street lights
Till I look closer, suddenly
A shape comes into focus
Those tiny dots standing in a line!
And on that line my feelings stumble
Falling over each other, words tumble
My pen arranging them on a line
As I put your black dot mama
At the end of the line, a full stop!
That’s firmly ends a thought
And allows another to trudge in
Joining dots were never easy mama
Until I learnt to colour the shape within!
10.12.22
Copyright © Carol Mitra | Year Posted 2022
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