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Elegy for Club Penguin
December 4, 2021
We had no place of our own,
No paths to carve
Through the shapeless ice,
Until we stopped, wide-eyed, before
That tunnel leading into light.
Then we knew what it meant
To parent a tiny creature,
To serve and save another,
To marshal our strength for a cause.
It may have been
“A game.”
But it brought us, blinking,
Out into radiant life.
Now, children of today,
The walls have closed again,
The impenetrable ice
Set up by your overseers—
None of it your own.
© Maria R., Allston, MA
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This is written from the perspective of right when Club Penguin ended, before the copycat versions became popular. I felt like something very important to my childhood had been taken away, even though I hadn't played the game in years.