Allison McCarter

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.