Robert E. Nolan

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.