Best Poems Written by Violet Sky

A Qualitative Report on a Single Subject Ego Death

Hypothesis:
What is an ego anyways
Are we born with it
And from the moment we have the willpower 
we’re tasked with muting it
Or does it grow from experiences of rejection
Fed by whom? 
Is it intrinsically preserving,
Extrinsically repelling…
For the sake of avoiding philosophical debate
Let’s say we have an agreed upon theory

Experiment:
I’d like to think my ego dissolved
The moment my mother dropped me
From her arms before I ever had a chance to challenge Piaget’s concept of object permanence 
And when I plummeted to reality
I landed upon the selfless idea
That if their need for affirmation 
Could supersede my need for survival
Then I could keep from ever falling so tragically again

Analysis:
And though ego death happens in silence
It’s showboating that sustains ego life 
Suppose one without the death 
could never question their impulses. 
Without an initial fall
The ego can’t even see it’s own reflection

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