Rhymes with Green
When I was young
(the fool)
In creative writing class
(high school)
A prompt asked:
(the teacher’s)
If you could run
(role reacher)
For anything in the world
(dream bigger)
Make a campaign poster
(envisioned winner)
Making your case.
The assignment came at a good time
(In youth's eye)
With a wide blue sky
(open ended)
I chose to be green
(As in?)
As in the color you've seen
(Is that sarcasm?)
No, that’s just what I mean
(Come again?)
I campaigned on green to actually be it
(Sounds like a colorful campaign)
Actually, it was a monochromatic thing.
The reason they say it's “not easy being green”
(it’s because of that frog, isn’t it?)
No, because of who’s the they doing the saying
(Not because of the singing muppet?)
No, because they are intentionally downplaying
(Is this slander against Mister Kermit?)
No, this is about the liars saying you can’t be green
(About the hand in the puppet, the real voice singing?)
Because of the money they’re paid and pay not to conceive
(About a different cost of living on the world these days)
Against pot-of-gold-hoarders who allege of an end they know
(About time we see ourselves as more than one thing)
We run between the rays and see beyond the rainbow.