The Messenger

Those among us who self
congratulate cerebral process
in a peerless memory often
suffer the fate of the egotistical
mind-to-brain comeuppance
when memory, tasked with a
simple retrieval, fails, leaving
the mind to flail about in a
frantic search that invariably
fails, leaving trust dejected.
But while the conscious mind
seeks fruitlessly, then suffers
the pangs of uncertainty, the
messenger-mind studiously
goes about its assigned business
of checking memory's neglected
files quite independently of its
mentor. Nothing distracts it
from its diligent search as it
opens, then closes each of
those dimly stored, forgotten
files until the successful and
inevitably tardy extraction and
the sudden revelation nudges 
memory, passing the result to
the exultant mind, restoring
due confidence in the mythical
mystical, arcane processes of
the all-too-human brain.