Un Petite Freakout

I need to be writing essays, but I am scared of prose because, well, it's much longer than a poem, thereby making it much more difficult to tie up all the loose ends, sustain a theme, keep the language fresh, and be interesting syntactically and to the ear while swinging from the monkey bars.

And I'm afraid of it not being very good.

But I feel like I need to put my poetry away for a little while.