Sunset at Burnham on Sea (soft pastel) by Helen James
“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.”
Sunset at Burnham on Sea (soft pastel) by Helen James