Aging Behavior

A zealous Id catches itself
standing before its fissured mirror on birth’s yearly day,
an octogenarian’s reunion with the past,
looking at yet another ebb

as Aging’s drift bides its time for the moment.

Seeing beyond the obvious,
Superego turns away from another year of patchy memories,
all while its waning awareness struggles with momentary pleasures

succumbing to the rapidly encroaching fog of senility.

How persistent the drifting.

Tenacity gazes at Ego’s cast-away fragments

strewn upon a self-imposed island,
where the flotsam of yesterday’s history,
remains as Mistakes' endless storms,

now but a shore strewn conundrum.

In its momentary repose,
try as the Ego might to connect the fragments

and perhaps project a new sparkle here,
a buried treasure there,
all that remains is the buried truth,

that Superego essence that needs not façade’s image,

but asks only that its inner honesty exercise courage.  

Yet…

With Reflection’s limits,
and Id’s stubborn pride,

this day will likely persevere
until Behavior’s next birthday.