Frank Grayson

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,

of bright and sunny days.

I'd like the tears of those who grieve

to dry before the sun ~

with all of the happy memories

that I leave when my life is done.