Slow dance - a very meaningful poem

[KenX]

This is a beautiful poem - written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital and also a lesson for us to consider.

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'd 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.

[Nhân..sầu]

It's like Dan's grandfather said: It's not the goal that makes us happy, but the process of getting to that goal.
You run all the way to the end of the road, that's maybe where you want to get to, but it's also when the fun stop.
Slow is good, but not all the time. I guess because she was ill at the time, so she wanted time to pass slower, and she can walk longer

Pretty poem.

[lu_hehe]

"The game is nothing, the playing of it everything."


--The Darksword.


Thanks for sharing, it sounds very very nice.

[THIÊN TỬ]

:rain: very meaningful peom. Thank you for sharing. "don't dance so fast, time is short"