Peter Hammill

Personality

Peter Hammill


Not the same, 
we are changed and we are changing still; 
I've been waiting for the beans to spill. 
If the truth be told all the plots will unfold: 
we've as many lives as we have friends or acquaintances, 
we're all only fractions of a whole. 
Self-belief 
glues together personality; 
well-accomplished in all vanity, 
in a life-long dream the consciousnesses stream 
through as many lives as this: all the voices in our heads. 

My brother's keeper 
under no lock or key 
will you always look out for me? 

I don't remember, I don't remember, 
I don't remember the names, 
the essential's familiar, the personality's under change.... 

Through your eyes 
I can see reflections of my own, 
I feel I'm losing sight of all I've known 
and I'm spiralling down, in the gene-pool drowned.... 
Truth is buried deep and just as well: 
we've as many lives as lies we tell, 
all the seld-taught fragments of fractured personalities. 

I don't remember your name.