Living Wide Open  By:   Dawna Markova 

Tags: less afraid living wide open Heart

Poem

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.

Excerpted from I Will Not Die an Unlived LIfe