You step down stairs with seedlings in your coat
The cabinet glow paints chlorophyll on your throat
A Galaga hum becomes your watering can
You press start buttons like seeds in a plan
Neon drips condense on pixel leaves
The joystick grows like vine beneath your sleeves
Coin slots drink the mist you breathe out slow
Token terrarium begins to glow
Spring reverb rains on the CRT moss
Token terrarium glowing in the dark
Pixel ferns unfurl beneath the cabinet spark
You tend the light where no sun ever falls
Quarter-fed photosynthesis in arcade halls
You prune dead sprites with scissors from your bag
Watch 8-bit petals bloom in vector flag
The bassline thumps through root systems below
Galloping rhythm makes the succulents grow
Tremolo bar bends like wind across
Your lens captures growth in stop-motion frames
Life develops fast in arcade games
Neon drips condense on pixel leaves
The joystick grows like vine beneath your sleeves
Token terrarium glowing in the dark
Pixel ferns unfurl beneath the cabinet spark
You tend the light where no sun ever falls
Quarter-fed photosynthesis in arcade halls
Shutter clicks freeze the fern in digital spray
You document green in the cabinet gray
Each photo a seed for the next generation
Polaroid prints feed the machine's cultivation
Coin slots drink the mist you breathe out slow
Token terrarium glowing in the dark
Pixel ferns unfurl beneath the cabinet spark
You tend the light where no sun ever falls
Quarter-fed photosynthesis in arcade halls
Storm passes the arcade exhales slow
Clean tube warmth makes the pixel ferns glow
You sit cross-legged in the cabinet's shade
Meditative calm in the quarter-glade
Token terrarium begins to glow
Token terrarium glowing in the dark
Pixel ferns unfurl beneath the cabinet spark
You tend the light where no sun ever falls
Quarter-fed photosynthesis in arcade halls
Now every cabinet holds a living screen
The greenest high score you've ever seen
You ride the bus out with your camera rolled
Token terrarium beautiful zoom
Spring reverb rains on the CRT moss
Token terrarium glowing in the dark
Pixel ferns unfurl beneath the cabinet spark
You tend the light where no sun ever falls
Quarter-fed photosynthesis in arcade halls
Token terrarium glowing in the dark
Token terrarium growing still
Token terrarium always will