Please Read: A poem by a teen with cancer

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Posted: 19 years ago
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Hey guys,

I want you all to read this poem that's written by a teenager with cancer. She wants to see how many people receive this poem and wants to as many people as possible to get the message. I would really appreciate if you took the time to read the following Poem. Comments and your thoughts on the message of the poem are always welcomed.

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 light?

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

Do write your thoughts and opinions and maybe if in life sometimes you can relate to it. And please convey in your own words what the dying child is trying to convey.

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Posted: 19 years ago
#2
it's a beautiful poem 😊 👏
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Posted: 19 years ago
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luvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv it.....its really nice 😊 👏
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Posted: 19 years ago
#4
it's sad, because it's true 😭
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Posted: 19 years ago
#5
very well expressed yaar!!!i feel so bad for her!!! 😭
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Posted: 19 years ago
#6
wonderful! hope s/he feel beter soon!
very sad though
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Posted: 19 years ago
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very well-written poem.
i think we all lose on the pleasures of living life coz evrythin seems so fast. we shud take out some time for ourself 😊
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Posted: 19 years ago
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it is a great poem, thank you for posting it!
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Posted: 19 years ago
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It was nice, very moving. I think this poem is saying that illness is like a "Slow Dance", u watch ur life ticking away, a second feels like a minute, a minute feels like an hour, an hour feels like a day etc. Also an illness like cancer enables u see everything she describes in the poem, rain splashing on ground, butterfly's flight etc. Whereas u might not b able 2 see these things if u r rushing 2 places. Also that we should not take life 4 granted that we should live each day as our last, and dont say "ill do it 2morrow" coz u never know "Kal Ho Na Ho" ("Tomorrow May Never Be"). I think that is the meaning of the poem. It was a meaningful poem. 😭 I would like 2 say well done 2 whoever wrote this. 👏
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Posted: 19 years ago
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thanks a lot for posting this yaar

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