Slow Dance
December 22, 2007 12:47 am PoetrySlow Dance
by David Weatherford
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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.
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December 24th, 2007 at 3:23 am
so sad
December 24th, 2007 at 3:45 am
The poem was written by David Weatherford. The attribution to a “terminally ill girl” is from an email scam.
http://www.davidlweatherford.com/slowdance.html
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/slowdance.asp
December 24th, 2007 at 8:05 am
nice poem but….
thanks for sharing it
jasmine
December 24th, 2007 at 11:40 am
nice poem yet sad and very helpful for those of us who may take our lives for granted ive also come to realize (after losing my step dad)that we have to love and show and tell our loved ones,love while there still with us.
December 24th, 2007 at 11:53 am
oh my god. i love this poem so much. i went on a camp which was the best week of my life and in our pamphlet thingy it had this poem!
love it HEAPS
December 24th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
i enjoy this poem so much, it really tells us the true of how we live each day … yes we need to slow down and take it easy sometimes…
December 24th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
This is REALLY good poem, and has a really cool message.
*peace*
December 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
thanks for the info found this poem at
http://classicpoetry.variousstuff.net/poets/1.html
will change the post and credit author
michael
December 24th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
deep very deep poem, it really speaks to me.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
this is truely amazing! outstanding & incredible ?
March 21st, 2009 at 2:44 am
i like the part about asking how are you and hearing the reply, because i’m pretty sure nobody ever expects a reply. I do though. I take life slow. Its so much better than fast…its a great poem