Yellow Roses

Yellow roses are for friendship

Hand them out by the dozens

Give all your friends a bouquet

You have plenty to give away

Yellow roses are for friendship

Put them in pretty glass vases

Water them every day, every night

It doesn't take much to care for them

Yellow roses are for friendship

It's okay if they start to wilt

All they need is a little extra water

A little more love and care

Yellow roses are for friendship

Their petals are falling off

Thorns pricking all who come close

Golden yellow fading to sickly brown

Yellow roses are for friendship

They are decaying, rotting, dying

No one wants to say anything

Politely glance at a silver bin

Yellow roses are for friendship

A dozen discarded in the waste

To be picked up Thursday morning

We decide to stop pretending

Yellow roses are for friendship

Too bad flowers are temporary.