An Unlived Life

An Unlived Life

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 loose 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.