Toss a Coin to Your Maintainer.txt

Toss a coin to your maintainer,
O guardian of the tree,
For the forests of dependency
Are darker than they seem.

He patches through the nightfall,
He merges through the dawn,
While the auditors ride eastward
To demand another form.

Toss a coin to your maintainer,
Their burden never ends,
For the SBOM hides its curses
In the places no one checks.

He wanders through the versions,
Through the breakage and the blame,
And the vendors call it “governance”
But the Witcher knows its name.

Toss a coin to your maintainer,
O traveler passing through,
For the Law of Surprise is binding
When the package chooses you.

And when the build is failing,
And the dashboards bleed in red,
Remember who stood vigil
While the ecosystem slept.

Toss a coin to your maintainer,
O hero unsung, unseen—
For without their weary labor
No kingdom runs its machine.