Rumi poem

[Guest guest]

Hi all,Am home today with the flippin' flu and sinusitis. Have been sleepinga

lot and drinking quite a bit of water and orange juice. I feelbetter than I did

when I first felt the symptoms yesterday but amgoing to chill out until I feel

better. Went to the doc, heprescribed meds for the flu and sinusitis. Am not

taking the flu medbut am taking the sinusitis med. I basically went to him

forverification and a doctor's note for work. Anywho, I had bought abook of

Rumi's poetry last Saturday and came across one that I'd liketo post. It's

called 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 fromthe ground, not natural or etheral, not composed of

elements at all.I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did

notdescend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace

of the traceless. Neither body orsoul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the

two worlds as one andthat one call to and know,first, last, outer, inner, only

that breath breathing human being.