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'Trust' sets stillness on the Moon against reported footprints across water.

Its power comes from incompleteness. The page presents trust as belief in traces that should not exist, while the terse lineation makes each phrase feel provisional.

Titled 'Trust,' a four-line lyric whose power is its incompleteness. It offers two images of the impossible held as belief: 'Standing still on the Moon' or 'footprints you have head about / across the water' (source wording 'head' for 'heard'). The little hinge word 'or' lets trust hang between a lunar stillness and the hearsay of footprints walking on water - traces that should not exist. The terse, gap-broken lineation keeps each phrase provisional, so trust here is faith in reported marvels rather than anything witnessed.