Both Sides of the Coin

Jasper:

I am not myself these days for all I

know I might be you

There's more than room enough for two inside my mind

Sapsea:

I am likewise in a haze of who I am from

scene to scene

What's more we two (we four, I mean)

are in a bind

Jasper:

For is it I or is it me?

Sapsea:

And if I'm him and if I'm he, each on of us might not

Agree on what to do

Jasper:

And if I take opposing sides within myself,

Then who divides up what is right or wrong?

Sapsea:

I'll go along with you

Both:

Ha'penny, one penny, tupenny, thrupenny

Twelve to a shilling, twice that to a florin

To find the same face on both sides of the coin?

Bob is your uncle from pennies to guineas

The two-sided mint is the rule, not exception

And would you not quite feel quite the fool of deception

To find the same face on both sides of the coin?

Sapsea:

Odds or evens, it's high or low

It's up or down or night

Jasper:

Heads or tails, or black and white

Or left and right or day!

Sapsea:

Nature seldom ever fails to most obligingly provide

An undisclosed opposing side to one's dismay

Jasper:

There's shadows on this shining morn

Sapsea:

If there's a rose it bears a thorn

Jasper:

You're as good as dead as soon as born

Both:

And yet we smile

Sapsea:

But luck's division is perverse

Jasper:

It seems to work more in reverse

Sapsea:

If things are better, they'll be worse in just a while