Lost in Rhetorics

Strange are the charades that people play

Everyone thinks they know what you want to say

So busy are we in reading between the lines

That the actual intention escapes our mind's confines

What's clearly evident, we refuse to see

Searching forever some wild conspiracy

Caught up in the roles that we play

Trying hard to uphold the images we think we portray

Juggling between the many masks we wear

Of the fact that you're losing your true self

You're completely unaware

Every sentence, every gesture 

Even a simple smile

We can't help but scrutinize

For a million hidden wiles

Step by step as the delusion escalates

A lifetime riddled with paranoia culminates

Too easy to slip into this travesty

Be wise and break free at the littlest opportunity

For once you are stuck in this vicious quagmire

There is only one course that will transpire

Unwillingly you become one of those 'fashionable' cynics

Forever you seem to be lost in rhetorics