Slow Dance

Slow Dance (by Anonymous)

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.

i have recieved this poem so many time in my mail but i love it none the less because it rings so true. we all are in a hurry to get to some place, do something and in all this we forget the importance of relationships and peoeple who have touched our lives and whoes lives we have touched. the little treasures that life gives us each day, the ones we just throw away, expecting to recieve it again tomorrow. but when tomorrow comes we see none.