Id Versus Ego
(for Kate)

If it isn’t my ‘id,’ then what is it?
I thought I had inherited these ways!
I’m impulsive and anal and deliberate,
Safe to say, there’s no need to paraphrase!

When my psyche tells me, “Do this now!”
Should I attempt to make myself stop?
Or proceed as my conscience will allow,
While obeying my ‘id’ until I drop!

Then, of course, there’s this pesky ‘ego,’
Always worrying about who said what!
So concerned about what seems apropos;
Yet somehow always landing me in a rut!

Now the way I see my life is a mystery:
It’s me against the world to the bitter end!
With my psyche safely under lock and key,
My ‘ego’ and ‘id’ will soon become friends!

Lora Frikken ~ 7-27-02