Hysteresis

You want a way to know for sure
If I am who I say I am?
The answer is a simple No:
Noone, nowhere, nowhen has been
The person that they say they are.
Pretenders all, pre-tending to
Pretensions of their betters far.
I am the one I wish I were.
I wish I were the one I am.
This circularity of mine –
Now magnetised by glorious goals
And now demagnetised by fate –
Is how I waste my energy.
No tense Potentiality,
In ambush, waits to spring at me.