| Am not a Christian nor a Jew nor a Muslim.
Not a Hindu. |
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| Not Buddhist, sufi, or zen.
Not any religion, |
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| or cultural system.
I am not from the East |
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| nor the West, not out of the ocean or up | |
| from the ground, not natural or ethereal. | |
| Not composed of elements at all.
I exist, but |
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| am not an entity in this world nor the next. | |
| Did not descend from Adam or Eve or any | |
| other origin story.
My place is placeless, a trace |
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| of the traceless.
Neither body nor soul. |
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| I belong to no one,
and have seen the |
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| world as one.
And that one called to know, |
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| first, last, outer, inner.
Only that |
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| breath breathing human being.
Yours, Pano PS: Rumi is eternal and visceral |
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