Prompt: write a poem describing yourself through an analogy or a metaphor

  All of my component parts

I believe are common enough

Flesh and blood, gristle and bone

All the usual stuff

But to find just one description

That can explain the complex whole

Requires too much thinking

And always takes a toll

You take or leave, at your discretion,

That who I am is who you see

I have no agendas hidden

Nothing on which the world need agree

But for me, the best description I can find,

Are these few short words that will suffice

In a statement I happily deem so true -

Aged men are children twice!

A/N: From the Latin phrase - Bis pueri senes

old men are twice children