SO UNLIKE WHAT IS ME

SO UNLIKE WHAT IS ME

I’m stuck
In this place
Half a day
Before my plane departs

I walk
Further into
The city’s
Broken heart

Between the high glass towers
And the sound of the sea
The road is endless
And the sun
Is burning down on me

So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me

I stop
For a second
On yet another
Shopping street

The tourists
And the merchants
They all
Emerge in fleets

A wide a shopping window
Shows a world frozen in time
And then window’s mirror
Catches my eye

So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me

I stand
And I stare
At this distorted
Image of mine

I’m looking
At some stranger
From a different
Age and time

I’m puzzled
Nearly paralysed
It’s an image of a man
With a life
So unlike what is me

So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me

Once, a love
That I had
She slipped away from me
She handed me the keys
To the mansion on the hill
She said, why should I be here
When you are never there?
You see,
I thought it was the mansion on the hill
On the hill…

I’m puzzled
Nearly paralysed
It’s an image of a man
With a life
So unlike what is me

So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me
So unlike what is me