"I will not die
an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling
or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living
to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which comes to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which comes to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit"
