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Slow Dance
This is a poem
written by a teenager

with cancer.

It is quite the poem
Please pass it on.

This poem was written by a

terminally ill young girl in a
New York City Hospital .

It was sent by a medical doctor.


SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids



On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain



Slapping on the ground?


Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.


Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say,'Hi'

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.


When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift..........

Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over






----------------isnt that pretty and sad-----------------------
the sad thing is how much its true ..... lets pass it around........... please