Touching poem

[Sunny Beaches]

Slow

Dance

This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.

She wants to see how many people get her poem.
It is quite the poem Please pass it on.
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.
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FORWARDED
E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL
COUNT.
Dear All:
PLEASE pass this mail 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 her dying 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.
By you sending this to as many people as
possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to,
The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name
to her treatment and recovery plan.
One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know that we can at least send
it to 5 or 6. It's not even your money, just your time!
PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST.
Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
Department of Developmental and MolecularBiology
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York
10461

[cindyo]

Can't read it, backround to light with white font.

[Sunny Beaches]

click on it & scroll up it's a nice poem, but dw told me it's a hoax!

[cindyo]

Originally Posted by Sunny Beaches

click on it & scroll up it's a nice poem, but dw told me it's a hoax!

Sunny beaches...I can't read it, the backround is tan and the letters are white. Almost impossible to see it....:}

[Sunny Beaches]

Sorry Cindyo, the only thing i can suggest is click on the words & pull your mouse down, the words turn blue. I don't how to fix.

[cindyo]

Originally Posted by Sunny Beaches

Sorry Cindyo, the only thing i can suggest is click on the words & pull your mouse down, the words turn blue. I don't how to fix.

BINGO...nice ! cindy :>)

[Arubalisa]

Hoax , but nice and thought provoking nonetheless.

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,'Hi'
You'd better slow down

I just so happened to receive one of those phone calls today from a friend of the family I had not spoken to in 20+ years. My Mom told him to call me for info on Aruba.

Written by http://www.davidlweatherford.com/

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/slowdance.asp
Lots more info

[purpleangel]

Yes, beautiful poem but a hoax. A lot of hoax emails that ask you to forward to 15 million friends are loaded with cookies, resulting in tons of spam. Always good to check snopes.com or truthorfiction.com to verify.

[Sunny Beaches]

hoax yes, but nice poem.

[Arubalisa]

Originally Posted by purpleangel

A lot of hoax emails that ask you to forward to 15 million friends are loaded with cookies, resulting in tons of spam.

Orrin could verify but I thought you could NOT send a cookie via Email, IM or SMS. Cookies are part of the internet and are sent/received as part of the HTTP protocol.
The only way I know of is to have access to server side code which in turn interprets the cookie and then you can send via plain text or attachment.

Always good to check snopes.com or truthorfiction.com to verify.

ALWAYS!

AND Of course you could always send http://www.mrsfields.com/giftcertificates/