The Heart and Its Double - Sarah Mary Chadwick

But I just want to see

The flashing lights play

Their game of charades

Before the mirror it breaks

The rubbish left by the parade

And I feel my life tinkling away

And feel it even as I say

That my heart is full

But there’s always its double

And you fly through and hit the sky

And fill your pockets, make them yours

And I’ll write it down

And please sing it when I’m gone

'Cause there’s shade when there is light

Sometimes there’s no more energy to fight

And sometimes there’s no way to make it right

And leave you mine

And that’s alright

The heart and its double

One in joy and one in pain

And I just don’t know which one is my friend

Suppose it doesn’t matter in the end

So long as lights play their games

And my tongue tastes the rain

And this poem’s the same

And this music is playing

And you have pockets of stars

And I can still hide in bars

And this twin of my heart

Still laughs when I laugh