Joseph Wynne Velasquez

Afterglow

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.