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 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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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 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!

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