Yesterday's Yellow Is Today's Gold

I'm translating a message.
It's been around since times of old!
" Yesterday's Yellow 
  Is Today's Gold. "

To follow are examples
Of what this message means.
Perhaps you can think of more,
Exploring it with many themes...

Circumstances change.
Transformations go unseen.
Yesterday's Princess
Is today's Queen.

Yesterday's lesser
Becomes today's more.
Yesterday's closure
Opens today's door.

Yesterday's coward
Today has courage and has might.
Yesterday's loser
Wins today's fight.

Yesterday's rocks
Today are diamonds sparkling bright.
Yesterday's wrongs
Today are lessons that are right.

Yesterday's sufferer
Is a comforter today.
Yesterday's anxious ones
Today soothe in what they say.

Yesterday's downtrodden
Today are respected and are true.
Your yesterday's child
Is today, your adult you...

So keep this thought before you
Until these days to you are old.
" Yesterday's Yellow
  Is Today's Gold! "


Written 28th February 2022
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Dietrich Avatar
March 2, 2022 at 9:02 PM
I had never heard that expression before. I really like the examples of it
Scragg Avatar
March 4, 2022 at 2:29 AM
Thanks Andrea. Yesterday's Yellow Is Today's Gold is a phrase I created myself. But the idea of not underestimating the value of people or things and their potential is a lesson that's seen through the ages. This is the message the poem talks of. The phrase is my translation of that message. Glad you enjoyed the examples :-D
Leffanta Avatar
March 1, 2022 at 10:42 AM
Well thought and done! One can not watch Antique Roadshow without seeing how yesterday's "junk" is today's treasure! Aloha!
Scragg Avatar
March 2, 2022 at 6:47 AM
Lol... So true .. :-D we should never underestimate the value of what or who we have in our lives;)
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