This is a prelude to a new post coming tomorrow about the recognition of my loss of identity and others’ need for ‘the story’.
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 mere 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
~ Rumi
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