If I were...

If I were a rose

Today

I would be past my best

Blowzy

My petals faded and falling 

Away

If I were a colour

Today

It would be grey

washed out

Fading and flaking on

The wall

If I were a person

Today

I would be a bag lady

forlorn

     Dreading my life

       Tomorrow

                  And if I could imagine

Tomorrow

                    It would have the same

Forlorn

Fading

Washed out

Feeling

That it has today

"And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death"

Shakespeare