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Slow Dance

21/5/2017

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Posted 30 October 2016

By a little girl dying of cancer. Contributed by Anne-Marie van Dijk.
Have you ever watched kids
on a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
slapping in 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 though 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 seen 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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