Not a 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 composed or elements at all

I do not exist

I am not an entity in this world

or the next

did not descend from

Adam and Eve or

any origin story. . . . .

first, last, outer, inner

only that breath breathing

human being