The Other Side of Me - Fish

When the zephyrs pulse the sails I feel the tiller in my fingers

Feluccas dancing, flirting on the swollen Nile

Slowly touch the distance, the meniscus of horizons

A shimmering mirage across the desert sands

I follow silken threads in coral caves in soft suspension

Blades of torches scything through the stagnant gloom

Life’s breath escapes like mercury, swarming to the ceiling

Silver serpents tunnel shadows to another room

I sensed someone there, I turned around, it wasn’t you

I couldn’t recognise at first just who it was, it had been a while

It seems crazy after all that has been said and done

I took a vow that we would never walk alone

But here I am, eye to eye, face to face

With the other side of me

Where the doorways tempt my intrigue with another key of sunlight

I am not afraid

I nurse a steady heartbeat, the currency of breathing

Pays my way toward new openings, in a life I used to know before

First person singular, me, myself, I

First person singular, no tears left to cry

I’m smiling deep inside, first person singular

I wander through the archways of green and lush cathedrals

Barefoot on soft needles on the forest floor

Awake inside a daydream, sombre meditation

I only hear the whisper of the falling leaves

It seems crazy after all that has been said and done

I took a vow that we would never walk alone

So here I am, eye to eye, face to face

With the other side of me

I lay on table mountain, gazing down on endless ocean

And I knew deep in my soul that I was not alone

I was not alone

Heightened by the freedom of this new realisation

The sun rose to the heavens through this crack of dawn

This crack of dawn

I sensed someone there, I turned around, it wasn’t you

I couldn’t recognise at first just who it was, it had been a while

It seems crazy after all that has been said and done

I took a vow that we would never walk alone

So here I am, eye to eye, face to face

With the other side of me

The other side of me

The other side of me

On the other side of you