I will not die an unlived life

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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 came to me as seed

Goes to the next as blossom

And that which came to me as blossom

Goes on as fruit.


–Dawna Markova

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