Phillip PJ Jay Beck

I’d like the memory of me

to be a happy one

I’d like to leave an after glow

of smiles when my 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 my life is done.