This is so sad.<br>> <br>> */Slow Dance /*<br>> <br>> This is a poem<br>> written by a teenager with cancer.<br>> <br>>She wants to see how many<br>> people get her poem.<br>> <br>> It is quite the poem. Please pass it on.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>This<br>> poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a<br>> New York<br>> Hospital .<br>> <br><br>> It was sent<br>> by<br>> <br>> a medical doctor - Make sure to read what is in the closing<br>> statement<br>> AFTER THE POEM.<br>> <br>> SLOW DANCE<br>> <br>Have you ever<br>> watched kids<br>> <br>> On a merry-go-round?<br>> <br>> Or listened to<br>> the rain<br>> <br>> Slapping on the ground?<br>> <br>> Ever followed a<br>> butterfly's erratic flight?<br>> <br>> Or gazed at the sun into the fading<br>> night?<br>> <br>> You better slow down.<br>> <br>> Don't dance so<br>> fast.<br>> <br>> Time is short.<br>> <br>> The music won't<br>> last.<br>> <br>> Do you run through each day<br>> <br>> On the<br>> fly?<br>> <br>> When you ask How are you?<br>> <br>> Do you hear the<br>> reply?<br>> <br>> When the day is done<br>> <br>> Do you lie in your<br>> bed<br>> <br>> With the next hundred chores<br>> <br>> Running through<br>> your head?<br>> <br>> You'd better slow down<br>> <br>> Don't dance so<br>> fast.<br>> <br>> Time is short.<br>> <br>> The music won't<br>> last.<br>> <br>> Ever told your child,<br>> <br>> We'll do it<br>> tomorrow?<br>> <br>> And in your haste,<br>> <br>> Not see his sorrow?<br>> <br>> Ever lost touch,<br>> <br>> Let a good friendship die<br>> <br>> Cause you never had time<br>> <br>> To call and say,'Hi'<br>> <br>> You'd better slow down.<br>> <br>> Don't dance so fast.<br>> <br>> Time is short.<br>> <br>> The music won't last.<br>> <br>> When you run so fast to get somewhere<br>> <br>> You miss half the fun of getting there.<br>> <br>> When you worry and hurry through your day,<br>> <br>> It is like an unopened gift....<br>> <br>> Thrown away.<br>> <br>> Life is not a race.<br>> <br>>Do take it slower<br>> <br>> Hear the music<br>> <br>> Before the song is over.<br>> <br>>
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<br>> <br>> FORWARDED E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL<br>> COUNT.<br>> <br>> Dear All: PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know -<br>> even to those you don't know! It is the request of a special<br>> girl who will soon<br>> leave this world due to cancer.<br>> <br>> This young girl has 6 months left<br>> to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter<br>> telling everyone to<br>> live their life to the fullest, since she never will.<br>> <br>> She'll<br>> never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married<br>> and have a<br>> family of her own.<br>
<br><br>Thanks for reading this amazing poem
<br>Jailo
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