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I felt that folks at Smith Mountain Lake and everywhere would want to read this email I recently received.

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.

It was sent by a medical doctor – Make sure to read what is in the closing statement after the poem.


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.


——————

Dear All:

PLEASE pass this message on to everyone

you know – even to those you don’t know! 

It is the request of a special girl who will

soon leave this world due to cancer.

This young girl has 6 months left to live,

and as herdying wish, she wanted to

send a letter telling everyone to live

their life to the fullest, since

she never will.

She’ll never make it to prom, graduate

from high school, or get married and

have a family of her own.

PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST.

Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
Department of Developmental and
Molecular Biology
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461

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