James Elkins Jr.

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.