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This poem was written by a terminally ill young woman in a hospital. The young cancer patient has few months left to live. She told her doctor that she wanted to send the poem to others to encourage them to live their lives to the fullest, since she never will be able to do so.
 
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.
 
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