this is a poem written by a teenager girl with ancer
New York
Hospital
It was sent by a medical doctor
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever
watch a 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.......
Trown away
life is not a
race
Do take it slower
Hear the
music
Before the song is over
.......................................
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this young girl has 6 months left
to live ,and as her dying wish, she wanted to send aletter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest , since she never will
She’ll
never make it to poem , graduate from high school , or get married and have a familly of her own
Dr
Dennis Shields , Professor
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology1300
Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York
10461