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August 21, 2009 by Andrea Nierenberg

Slow Down to Read This Touching Poem

This amazing poem will touch you and be thought provoking.Slow Dance. This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.She wants to see how many people get her poem.

Read it and pass it on–and read all the way down to see how you will have an impact.

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York  hhospital .It was sent by a medical doctor –

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.

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. PLEASE PASS ON=2 0AS A LAST REQUEST.

Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor

Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology

1300 Morris Park Avenue

Bronx , New York

Filed Under: General

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  1. George says

    September 7, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    aqui te va el correo de poema paiza

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