The whole purpose of wording it oddly was to throw you off, and the cookie symbolized the riddle so instead you could say "look to the riddle."
Okay here is another although not as good as the first....
Shield and protect
Contain and collect
are the things I must do
and I like my job because I always have a friend.
Or maybe it is because I can bend?
Sometimes it can be annoying having to hear you coo-
Now that I'm thinking about it...
maybe I should take a vacation for a bit,
and make you go "Boo-Hoo!!!"
I mean really what have you done for me
that does not help yourself, you see!
Oh, you would be reduced to everything, but you will have nothing, like goo!
Always pushed around sometimes having to do the impossible.
Yet I still do my duty even if you have to hobble!
I guess I should stop now since I have many tasks that are due,
and if you have solved this riddle maybe you do care
so I will leave you to wonder and stare.