Clock Strikes Twelve

Fear and writing!

So afraid of the opinion of the people

 

on the other end of my keyboard; why?

 

What am I waiting for?  The clock is ticking,

 

and I’m worried about getting my feelings hurt?

 

I’ll tell myself that nothing will happen

 

if I don’t send out my stuff, but then I read it again,

 

and something I had thought was pretty good,

 

suddenly becomes a story full of holes,

 

and the more time goes by, the worse it probably is,

 

until when my finger hovers over the ‘send’ button,

 

I cannot push it down; it’s surely not anything

 

the publisher’s looking for!