Wow! This is an awesome poem

Hey guys! My friend Shannon just sent me this poem that really hits home and makes you think. It's written by a teenager with cancer. She was terminally ill in a New York Hospital when it was written....Check it out!


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's20erratic 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.