Wildflowers

All I ask

Is when I'm gone

You'll remember me in the wildflowers that grow by the highway

See me in the stars that look brighter on snowy nights,

Smell the salt of the ocean and remember that I was alive

Walk in the forest I haunted in life and remember that I grew wild

Like the yellow weeds that I called spring flowers,

The ones that faded into wishing flowers,

And blew on the wind in the summer time

Like the embers that floated above bonfires

That kept us up all those midnights past

Like those fireflies

The floating lights that taught us to dance,

Like my ashes, carried away on the breeze.

All I ask

Is when I'm gone

You'll remember me a wildflower