Sway

He used her up

Drank her cup

Now she’s a dried up vessel

One vein too blue

One more cell to chew

He ate her brain, who knew

But now she is free

And he, he

He is the Zombie father

The step in the grain

That makes the plane

Jump when we shave the wood farther

He, he is the bitter root

Of rivalry

That keeps the bitter lemon tree

Growing

That leaves all grandmothers

Sucking lemons

Selling eggs and bacons

That leaves the chickens in the gardens

And the cold wind that hardens

The apples that sway

She sees them like she did

When she was a child

And he is her father who has broken his promises

And let the butterflies out of her enclosure

Like kissing lips

They part and fly away