Richard McNichols

I’d like the memory of me

to be a happy one,

I’d like to leave

an afterglow of smiles

when day 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 behind

when day is done.