Josephine Syverson Mueller

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.