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
erractic flight?

or gazed on 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 nest 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.

*written by a young girl with terminally ill*