[RUMI  : 1207 - 1273 AD]

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,

nor 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 the next, 

did not descend from Adam and Eve

or any origin story.

My place is place-less, a trace of the trace-less.

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