Don’t doubt yourself. Submit to the force of your own trust. You’ve survived worse: reams of self-doubt over a lifetime, plaguing you like death. You want others’ confidence. How can they, when there is nothing but terror and trepidation written on your face? Change it all. Trust yourself.
Note: If Charles Simic, our new Poet Laureate, can get away with this style, can’t I?
Poetic Alchemist 