Bearded Insect

Scaly insect,
Running through the Melbourne grass,
When you walk it sounds like the swish swooshing of wind,
How is it like to be a reptile?
I keep you in a cage,
Your tail is as long as yarn unwoven,
Eyes as green as the grass after a rainy day,
You have the colours of the desert in the middle of Australia,
Your secret is October the 2nd,
I have owned you for 3 quarters of a year,
Fingers as small as pins,
I would cry for days because if you were lost,
You will not survive out there,
You are for me