by Rumi

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, I 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 traceof 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.