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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.