Defying the Player

Save me, knight,
Carry me yonder!
Keep me from living
Alone and too free!
You might not be
Looking for valor but
Even the hero
Charges a fee.

And if I am female,
Then I can be CONQUERED,
(Saved and conquered are one in the same)

So take me, sir,
After all, don't I owe you?
I'm caught in your sway,in the power of your name.

And I'm easily played
Aren't I? Isn't it?
I'm weak and I'm foolish,
You don't have to try!
I take it all in,
I bend under pressure,
I don't ask for proof,
I don't challenge your lie!

Or at least, Knight,
That's how it seems.
That's how you'll want it always to be.

Me at your mercy
And you with the war prize,
Owning the kitten you saved from a tree.

Well it's easy to act
Like a kitten.  It's easy
To say that I buy it
And smile like a fool.
It is no great effort
To fake being conquered
And watch you show off
Your finesse in a duel.

I'm not like a castle,
And not like a kitten,
I will not be conquered,I will not behave.

I'll only submit
If it suits my own purpose.
I know it is not out of honor, you save.

You can outrun me
You can outlift me
You can insist that
You're one all adore
But I can't be won
By your self-serving ego.
Do not believe
I'll be one of your score.

So play me, "knight"!
Or go through the motions,
But know that I'll drop you as soon as I choose.

For if you are hunter
Then I am the phantom
And you are condemned to eternally lose.