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?

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.

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.............

        ..................... 

...........................

( This poem was written by a teenage girl with cancer, she has 6 months left to live and her dying wish is to have her poem heard around the world.)