To submit or not to submit.

This is the dilemma,

Is it better to submit and thereby expose one's self
to the often ascerbic and often bilious remarks
of a critic's venomous bit, to achieve
acknowledgment of one's craft and
receive credit for ones accomplishment.

Or by nonsubmission hide from thy fellow man
knowing that while he passes by in ignorant bliss
one could have offered praise for a worthy work
and therefore brand oneself a pitiless coward
never to feel the pains of joyous birth.

yet in this Dilemma's tortuous crucible one must refine
and define one's self knowing that by submission
one announces one's stand , and accept the
flight of jealous verbiage of those that fail to understand
there fore fail in understanding their own selves

yet one may entrap ones self with walls of doubt
to hide one's creation from sight of man
to avoid the pain of misjudged stares
to never to know failure by dint of never having tried
only to fine one's soul judged unworthy by one's self.
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OK, I'm covering my head now...