Richard A. Eckert

Richard A. Eckert of Jamesport, Age 88. Bloved father to Michelle Ranaldo, Richard Eckert, Michelle Wilder and Stephanie Metz.

I’d like the memory of me
to be a happy one,
I’d like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
of happy times and laughing
times and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those
who grieve, to dry before the sun.
Of happy memories that I leave
when life is done.