Suzerain

Spend the rest of your days here, I know it, I know it
Find a way to disengage here, I know it, I know it
Let the barren tree bring you shade here, I know it, I know it
I know that darling dance on the loose
Appearance will never seduce
Your payment presumptive and servile, I know it, I know it
You bow what is mine to the wise fear, I know it, I know it
So eat all my food and get gone dear, I'm growin', I'm growin'
I grow and the spirit breastbone on me, you'll always be feasting on me

She kept a record of everything that happened
Exactly as it happened
Every interaction captured in exacting fashion
Not a diary, was somethin' to be dissembled with dispassion
Carefully taken apart in the wire and examine
Beg the wrist to write, it looked like a butcher's list
A knife folded in the folds of her dress, she's nobody's muse

She wears a dead man's shoes and tracks the move
Down to the ground glisten, the only sound hound snippin', Suzerain
Nothin' can exist without permission in the book where they listed in
Charcoal sketched the men, the pen scratched some limbs
Pages full of such you won't see again
Suzerain
She never drew his face, she never wrote the end
Just left a blank space, her knee never bent
Everything swim in her eyeglass lens
Erased the sun, left the world to spin