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,

Am not an entity in this world or in the next,

Did not descend from Adam and Eve

Or any origin story.

My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

Neither body nor 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