AFTERGLOW

                                                                

Afterglow 

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

- Helen Lowrie Marshall