Disclaimer: Neopets is not mine, but i wish to god I'd thought to buy stocks in it way back when ...
A.N. I submitted this to the Poetry competition on the Neopets site. They didn't win me a thing. I'm hoping you, the reader, likes them better than the Neopets Team apparently did.
Little digger pet
Obsidian claws slash stone
Burrow deep in earth
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Blue red green tan fur
Large front paws of raw
power
Never a meek girl
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I'm tightly bound to earth
Nature's love nourished me
My ears, though large,
cool heated blood
and my fur insulates me.
Do you now wonder
Perhaps I'm a thing of
dreams
A creature untouched by
soiled hands
Fed by imagination alone.
That's not quite true
While I be a mortal beast
I still can't be properly
touched,
stroked, caressed, petted.
With ears I cannot hear
With eyes I cannot see
With nose I cannot smell
My owner is denyed to me.
I hunger, I'm fed
I'm hurt, I'm healed
I'm bored, I play
I get lonely.
My owner, though never
with me in body
is with me in spirit
It's my curse
to live in this world.
A virtual dungeon gilded
in gold
A virtual home of pixels
and colours
A virtual store that sells
virtual items
My world is not yours
Bits, bytes, kilobytes,
megabytes
Language of a machine
A thing of plastics and
metal
Nothing but power put into
a box.
Release me into your world
Let me breathe your air
Hear your cities
See you.
Who I am isn't the
question
It's who are you.
In my virtual world you
are gods
Creating, deleting with
nary a thought
Have you figured it out
yet?
I am yours
A Neopet
Gendi the Bori.
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