I Choose to Risk

Saw the following in one of my chat groups today and thought it worth sharing:

"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