Fear

"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