In Memory of my friend Cathy Hansen, October 19, 1956 – October 11, 2018

After Glow

by Helen Lowrie Marshall

I’d like the memory of me

to be a happy one.

I’d like to leave an after glow

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.