Fully Alive

I recently came across this poem and it spoke to me so powerfully that I wanted to share.   Love Jo xx.

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 a seed

goes to the next as blossom

and that which came

to me as blossom

goes on as fruit.

                                               ~ Dawna Markova.