Come, Come again !
Whatever you are...
Whether you are infidel, idolater or fireworshipper.
Whether you have broken your vows of repentance a hundred times
This is not the gate of despair,
This is the gate of hope. Come, come again...
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 the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the trace