Therein Madness Lies

Trust and paranoia Go hand slip hand Beneath the surface Or on the face of it To give trust means You give something away That passes from Mouth to mouth But does not Resuscitate Paranoia Takes the air From your lungs Sets you in a spin To cast the world away That may or may not Have traded you For gossip Either way You might Suffocate But trusting Feels Good Til it Flits past your eyes Casting shadows Now there's a cranefly at my window Coincidence? Yes Let's not get overexcited A bit of gossip Can be juicy And some people Might suck the meat off your bones But they remain hungry So will feast elsewhere Soon enough