Subject: Slow Dance

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl with cancer in a New York Hospital. She wants to see how many people get her poem. It is quite the poem Please pass it on. 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.

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 never 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!