Slow Dance

I have come across this in the emails that I have gone through, and thought, “Why don’t I go ahead and post this in the blogs. To me it’s very touching… I don’t like to send something like in a chain-like letter in emails. So if you like to pass this along; it’s quite allright with me.

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 fa ding
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.
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FORWARDED E-MAILS
ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL COUNT.
Dear All: PLEASE pass
this mail on to everyone you know - even to those you don't know! It is the
request of a special girl who will soon leave this world due to
cancer.
This young girl has 6 months left to live, and as her
dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life
to the fullest, since she neve r will.
She'll never make it to
prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her
own.
By you sending this to as many people as possible, you
can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this
is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her
treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know that
we can at least send it to 5 or 6. It's
not even your money, just
your time!
PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST
REQUEST.
Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
Department of
Developmental and Molecular Biology
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx , New
York 10461