| 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 or 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. | |
