worship?

It's almost finals time... here's a disastoriously disorganized rambling, inspired by a (somewhat) recent semi-discussion w/a friend about whether or not i should share my God's Kingdom in a Child poem at an interfellowship campus worship gathering. Some excerpts from an email I sent her:

you know when i wrote that poem i actually had no particular intent to share it (i tend not to about my art--insecurities maybe, or just inexperience), but as i was putting the finishing touches on it i said to myself, i think this is what worship is. not particularly the act of sharing it, but the act of creating it. ok, which i think is what led me to share it in lieu of a sermon at GBCS -- i've started to feel that worship is a conversation, a desire to discern with others, an intentional moment or lifetime to insist on dwelling on thoughts and actions of kingdom building. so sharing the poem was reliving its act of creation, but more importantly instigating the conversation. presenting my identity in an attempt to create space for the identities of others to be present. which is, i would imagine, partially how the idea of preaching came about long ago. but somehow it got all conflated with these silly (masculine?) obsessions with authority, and we started thinking that some folks have more legitimate phonelines to god and should be training the rest of us or something.
however i would pose the question: what is the difference between that (preaching) and our songs? are they not invoking a particular theological framework that relies on submission to authority?; i'm not convinced that the 'participatory' nature of singing along is truly participatory. i certainly don't feel that many of the songs we sing nowadays make any space for my identity. rather they tend to delegitimize my desire to build the kingdom... i suppose these ponderings come from a (somewhat) recent paradigm shift and thereby realigning and reconciliation of my actions in the world and theologies that at their core were designed to rationalize people not taking the kind of action that i take; that at their core pacify us into acceptance of a an unjust world, because 'god giveth and god taketh away' and us sinners are to 'wait for our rewards in heaven.' take the song 'light of the world', for instance -- 'light of the world, you stepped down into darkness, openned my eyes, let me see...Humbly you came to the earth you created, all for love's sake became poor. And I'll never know how much it cost to see my sin upon that cross (2x).' you know i used to love that song -- typed it from memory. at this juncture, incidentally, i find singing it to be almost the opposite of worship.