We Became just the Same

An octopuss in a garage.
A wrench floating in a bath tub.
The Promised Land
once arrived, seems dull.

What you secretly desire
when achieved is nothing but past.
Welcome to the club,
it will be both happy and sad.

It wasn't our vocation
but it was our fate.
It wasn't our aim
but we became just the same...

Green dogs, green dogs...

Kermit the frog sung in Sesame Street
it ain't easy being green...
Poor him if he were a green haired mammal, just think!

What do you want that green dog for?
She gets lost on every lawn!
Welcome to the club, girl,
the door is always unlocked, yeah!

It wasn't our vocation
but it was our fate.
It wasn't our aim
but we became just the same...

They didn't exist on Planet Earth
but we became just the same:
almost empowered
(not us; it is the world which is bothered!).
With no chlorophyll in our veins,
undyed hair, 
we may not last forever,
but we still may;
with no fruit to bear,
no applause at our show's end,
we are what we always were:
fearless, fearless, fearless...

Green dogs, green dogs...

I am a green dog 
and I'm proud of my emerald nose:
we are going to be more and more!
Green dog, I salute you, bro!

An octopuss in a garage.
A wrench floating in a bath tub.
The princess of the sewer's mud.

It ain't easy being green,
having to spend each day the color of the leaves.
I wonder why but... why wonder?

I am  green.

Written with Maite Larburu (Hezurren azpian, 2019)