'Slow Down'

[taygan315]

Do you ever watch kids
On a merry go round?
Or listen to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever follow a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gaze at the sun
Into the fading night?

Better slow down
Dont dance so fast
Time is short
The music wont last

Do you run thru 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 thru your head?

Better slow down
Dont dance so fast
Time is short
The music wont last

Ever tell your child
We'll do it tomomrow?
And in your haste
Not see his sorrow?

Do you ever lose touch?
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say Hi

Better slow down
Dont dance so fast
Time is short
The music wont last

When you run and rush to get somewhere
You miss half the fun getting there

When you hurry and worry thru 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






I memorized this poem because when I first read it, I learned it was written by a terminnally ill teen age girl with cancer. She is in a hospital in NY and she has been given 6 months to live. Her dying wish was for as many people as possible to read her poem to see if people get it and to live each day life has given you..which she can not right now.

I just thought it was touching and worth sharing. Reminds you that no matter how bad you think you have it, somewhere someone has it a bit worse than you but they still want to move forward the best that they can.

[nickoakdl]

I know I'm a cynic, and I hate to bust your balls, but this was not written by a terminally ill teenage girl with cancer.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/slowdance.asp

Hope it doesn't ruin it for you, the message should still be the same.

[taygan315]

I know I'm a cynic, and I hate to bust your balls, but this was not written by a terminally ill teenage girl with cancer.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/slowdance.asp

Hope it doesn't ruin it for you, the message should still be the same.

WOW!! Man.....I actually fell for this shit!! I think the poem is still touching..but now it has a stink to it that smells like a sale pitch!! If I am this gulliable now at 41, I am going to be in big trouble when I get elderly,lol. Thanks for pointing this out to me nickoakdi. Consider me .

[nickoakdl]

WOW!! Man.....I actually fell for this shit!! I think the poem is still touching..but now it has a stink to it that smells like a sale pitch!! If I am this gulliable now at 41, I am going to be in big trouble when I get elderly,lol. Thanks for pointing this out to me nickoakdi. Consider me .

I'm here for you. If it makes you feel any better, my mom is knocking on 50's door and she always forwards me emails with stories and poems (probably one including "Slow Down") which she completely believes and I have to send her a reality check. That site I linked is good for that.

[vinnie97]

Oh, idiocracy, how we scorn thee.

[taygan315]

I'm here for you. If it makes you feel any better, my mom is knocking on 50's door and she always forwards me emails with stories and poems (probably one including "Slow Down") which she completely believes and I have to send her a reality check. That site I linked is good for that.

That is how I got the poem in the first place: my parents sent it to my email,lol.