Roland Dorsey Glass

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.