The Placeless

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

the 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.

~ jelaluddin rumi