gossip

 
gossip begins then it brews
gets under your skin
there it festers
until you are swinging mad
and you're hurting the ones you confide in

from there it gets out of control
one word, two word, four
pretty soon you don't know how it started
but it's become a raging inferno
hurting those around you it spreads
from one person to the next

insidious greed it desires fodder
so the next person is scorched as it continues onward
the nature of it so cunning
you might think yourself immune
until it turns on you

I've been burned like this before
my soul scars are my proof
it needs no explanation
keep it to yourself

that's the best advise I know
to hurt another isn't my thing
I've been caught up in fray
to have it turned on me