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