Anna Elizabeth Waller

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.