fully alive

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.

-dawna markova

are you fully alive? what would you need to change to become fully alive?