Words 2 Live By...

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 a blossom
And that which came to me as a blossom
Goes on as fruit.
-Dawna Markova{as seen on Ms. Carol Mitchell-Leon's office door}