<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="background-color: white;">I will not die an unlived life</span><span class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white;">I will not live in fear of</span><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white;">falling or catching fire.</span><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white;">I choose to inhabit my days,</span><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white;">to allow my living to open me,<br class="">to make me less afraid,<br class="">more accessible,<br class="">to loosen my heart<br class="">until it becomes a wing,<br class="">a torch, a promise.<br class="">I choose to risk my significance;<br class="">to live so that which came to me as seed<br class="">goes to the next as blossom<br class="">and that which came to me as blossom,<br class="">goes on as fruit.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><br class=""> - Dawna Markova</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><br class=""></span></span></div></div></body></html>