i will not live an 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 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
