How I want to live these days...

A poem by Dawna Markova:

i will not die an unlived life,
i will not go in fear
of falling or catching fire,
i choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living open to me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
i chose 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.