Becoming An Author

by Sam M. Phillips

I’m coming apart at the seams,

All of my dreams

Are meeting with success,

And yet I feel less

Than able

To handle

The pressure.

.

Sure,

I’m happy to be working,

But there’s issues lurking,

Waiting to be exposed,

My fear grows

That I’ll have to keep

Up this pace,

That I’m in too deep

And the race

Will kill me,

Will the thrill be

Worth the mental exhaustion?

.

I like my new position

As an author,

But it’s still early days,

And it’s affecting me in ways

I never thought possible,

I don’t feel responsible

For what I’ll become,

My conscience is done,

Put on a thick skin and run.

.

My mind so far ahead,

See into the future

Where I am dead,

Trace the contour

Of my dread,

My head so full of hope,

But I cannot cope

Even with this

Small level of success,

What a frightful test

Real recognition will be.

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Four years in the making…

Jammed packed with fun ideas, complex characters, and snappy sci fi stories…

My debut collection –

INFINITY AND I: Seventy Science Fiction Short Stories

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