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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 favorite



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.


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.