Series of Poems Collected Out of Boredom When the MK Server was down for
over 48 Hours

(Retreived from Gungho’s MK Historical Library)
(original poems posted on MK Main BBS approx Nove 97)


Where, oh where has Skyven gone...
Our games are locked we can’t log on.
We want to play and kick some A...
But Metal Knights says not today
                   - Dojon

Here I wait...
I’m getting pissed,
trying to join...
the fights I’ve missed.
I lose my techs...
but that’s ok,
I’ll buy them back
another day.
It wants to load...
I see it tryin,
but in my game...
I know I’m dyin
But I’m a big boy,
and I don’t cry,
just write to Skyven...
“Why, why, why”
        -- Propwash

Oh why, oh why
won’t he just die...
With a ton of porcs in his base,
I just want to slap his face!
Sick and tired,
yet so wired.
Hurry up and play,
I don’t have all day!
              -- Gungho

With the server gone, we cannot play...
So at home alone we stay
Then start a local game
No way to climb the Hall of Fame
                        -- Iron Duke

Staring at a hole in the wall,
waiting with worry that I won’t play at all.
Sick of waiting, while others get in
Trying my patience again and again,
Looking for sunshine in a MetalKnights storm
Forgot my umbrella, left it at home.
Commando is bored, Panther is sitting there too.
All waiting for me to develop the nuke.
But they’ll just have to wait,
Sicne I can’t log on
My turns pass on by,
and Skyven can’t be found
I’m loyal to the man
who started this game,
but my patience grows thin,
Is my waiting in vain?
                 -- Soluna

In fron of my computer, I sit half awake
Hoping for some more games to make
Too many maps to correct
And cities to protect
The server crashes
As I give the computer some lashes
My mind’s in MK withdrawal
And my luck is all foul
The clock hands keep turning
as my patience is burning
I dream of Metal Knights
And long strategic fights
My hands begin to shake
And my mind starts to bake
I curse this damn server’s unreliability...
And now, in my games I’m placed at a liability
                            --  KickAss

Locked out, I cannot play
can you say wasted day
checking back all the time
someone’s playing, what a slime!
                    -- Garion

Oh where, oh where has Skyven gone
Oh where, oh where can he be?
With our games cut short and the wait so long
Oh where, oh where can he be?
                        -- Anon





I see that there isn’t much more to say,
Have we picked this apart enough for today
Skyven will come and make it all better
In the meantime, I think I’ll go knit me a sweater
                                         -- Catman