Pablo Z. Rubio

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.