slow dance

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'serratic 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,I

t is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away

.Life is not a

race.

Do take it slower

Hear the

music

Before the song is over.

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