Tuesday 11th September 2001
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 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.
There is a way between voice and presence where information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.
Rumi