Fish out of water

And I sat there 

Feeling like a fish out of a pond

No, no, not fish

I prefer to say I sat there

Feeling like a pond out of an octopus

Nope, that's messed up 

For its an octopus out of a pond

But in fact

Octopusses don't live in ponds

Worse, I got that metaphor wrong 

Never was it a fish out of a pond

It always was a fish out of water

So octopus out of water it is

But again, it should be said

That octopusses survive out of water

For twenty minutes or so

So I probably felt more like a fish

Not an octopus 

Though I wish I felt like an octopus 

With its eight legs or was it hands?

But no, I am just a fish

With no hands

No nose to breath on land

Forced to stay in water

To avoid feeling like a fish out of water