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,

I am not an entity in this world or in the next,
I 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, I have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.