"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." 

-Dawna Markova