Only Breath

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 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