Slow Dance

Slow Dance

  

This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.  

She wants to see how many people get her poem.  

It is quite the poem.  Please pass it on.   
       
  

         
This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital .

  

It! was sent by a medical doctor - Make sure to read what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM.  



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.

so happy to see my work.

I wish her the very best of health