• Ping’s Lament

    Posted on September 21st, 2009, 9:27 am by Mister Rengerz

    Waz up all :) Mister Rengerz here again …

    Today I’d like to get your feedback on an amazing poem Allan wrote. He’s not just a masterful web designer – but a fantastic poet, too – an all around renaissance man.

    Below is the poem he wrote as a lament about the brick character Ping that Anne Mai meets in the dungeon of the Ring Dragon. Within it’s beautiful prose is a heart searching for some validation from an often quiet and indifferent creator. Inspiring.

    Ping’s Lament

    Somewhere in a distant dream
    a lifetime lived against the stream
    I tried to calm each fearful scream

    Years of sorrow passing by –
    The others here before Anne Mai
    I wept as I was forced to watch them die

    To dry the tears of countless eyes
    to banish the evil I despise
    I gave my life in sacrifice

    Now here I stand, dear maker-king
    who made me and the dragon’s ring
    Is there room in your home for Ping?

    Enchanted brick of your design
    who did the work of the divine –
    Is the reward of Heaven mine?

    From earth and clay I was wrought
    born from my creator’s thought
    a pawn in someone else’s plot?

    I implore you, my soul momentarily revive
    I need to know — did they survive?
    Is my friend Anne Mai alive?

    It breaks my heart to hear you when
    you say Enchanted Bricks are not like Man
    when I just want to see her smile again.

    – Allan

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    4 responses to “Ping’s Lament”

    • September 21st, 2009 at 13:44

      Mr. Rengerz,

      Thanks for posting this on your site — consider it “fan-fiction!” It was indeed written strictly with Ping in mind but “Ping’s Lament, ” like a lot of my writing, end up with bits and pieces of myself falling into the proverbial inkwell.

      Ping was an awesome character!

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    • MSiverson

      September 27th, 2009 at 11:10

      This is a wonderful poem. It makes me want to go back and read the book again, so I can get a better feeling for all the characters. The story is such a page turner. I had to know what was going to happen next. I read it too fast to really understand the characters.
      Thanks for the connection to an important character, Allan.

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