A poem by Shayna Lowenstein, winner of NFTY's 2015 creative writing competition.
One.
One voice against the world.
One community linked together like the stars forming constellations in the sky.
One journey.
One thousand journeys.
One million journeys taken from the beginning of time, each different than the one that came before it.
One nation, a Jewish nation,
Building a foundation with self-determination to grow stronger,
Stronger than we were the day before and stronger than our ancestors in the desert could have ever imagined.
We are a blank canvas and each journey is a colorful marker.
As we each take our journey we create pictures.
Beautiful lines connecting us, one by one, day by day,
Pictures that will show us the world,
Pictures our grandchildren will one day look at and ask stories about,
And we will tell them.
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