A Death Wish and My Legacy

It probably doesn’t fit the conventional notion of a death wish, but when I die (and we each have an appointment), I would be dying in true character, the real me, if I had just finished telling a joke that no one got, - until after I’d "left the building," so to speak; leaving a situation where “the audience” really wants to laugh but can’t decide if it would be proper to do so. My legacy is another matter:

My Legacy

The legacy I hope to leave

Is to have played an influential part

In the lives of three husbands

And three fathers

Who loved their families for all their lives

And always loved them with all their heart

". . . as it is appointed . . ." (Hebrews 9:27)