Only breath
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not
Hindu,Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not
any religion or cultural system.
I am not from the East, or the West,
not out of the ocean or up from the
ground, not natural or ethereal,
not composed of elements at all.
I do not exist, and am not an
entity in this world or the next,

did not descend from Adam and Eve
or any origin story. My place is
placeless, a trace of the traceless.
Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have
seen the two worlds as one and
that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner,
only that breath breathing
human being.    Rumi