The poem encourages the reader to slow down and appreciate life instead of rushing through each day. It suggests that if you run too fast, you will miss important moments and opportunities to connect with others. The music of life is short, so you should listen before the song is over and hear all the fun in getting somewhere instead of just the destination. The document concludes by explaining that the poem was written by a terminally ill young girl with only 6 months to live, as she wished to share her message about living life to the fullest since she never will.

1. Slow Dance

2. Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?

3. Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

4. Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?

5. Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

6. You better slow down.
Don’t dance too fast.

7. Time is short
The music won’t last.

8. Do you run through each day
On the fly?

9. When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

10. When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

11. You better slow down.
Don’t dance too fast.

12. Time is short
The music won’t last.

13. Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?

14. And in your haste,
Not see his sorow?

15. Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say “Hi”?

16. You better slow down.
Don’t dance too fast.

17. Time is short
The music won’t last.

18. When you run so fast to get somewhere,
You miss half the fun to get there.

19. When you worry
and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift ……
Thrown away.

20. Life is not a race.
Do take it slower.

21. Hear the music
Before the song is over.

22. The above poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.
It was sent by a medical doctor. The little girl has 6 months to live. As her dying
wish, she wished to send a letter telling everyone to live their lives to the fullest,
since she never will. She will never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or
get married and have a family of her own ……