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.

PLEASE send this poem to everybody you know.
It is the request of a special little girl who will soon leave this world as she has cancer.
Please send this to everyone you know or don't know. This little 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 send it to at least 5 or 6..........................
Just think it could be you one day. It's not even your money, just your time! PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/mydek.htm


Didn't you wonder how they would know how many people the message was sent to?

No not really it was just sent to me. I like it so I just coped it and put it here.

once upon a time it could have been a real girl

once upon a time it could have been a real girl
?????? What?????? *looks confused*

like before people started blowing the story of it out of proportions it oculd have been a true story and a REAL girl could have actually wrote a poem....but as of now its a fake story

Oh ok. I dont realy care I just liked the poem.

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.

PLEASE send this poem to everybody you know.
It is the request of a special little girl who will soon leave this world as she has cancer.
Please send this to everyone you know or don't know. This little 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 send it to at least 5 or 6..........................
Just think it could be you one day. It's not even your money, just your time! PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST

That was nice. It was almost like a song, though. Oh well, I'll see how many people I can send it to.

That was nice. It was almost like a song, though. Oh well, I'll see how many people I can send it to.



WHAT.

Thank you BizarroSephiroth.

Retard, it's a fake. You're propogating lame chain emails.

Retard, it's a fake. You're propogating lame chain emails.
Let him do what he wants. We dont tell you what to do all the time.

People shouldn't be sending around chain letters.

Let him do what he wants. We dont tell you what to do all the time.
And you honestly think that will stop me?

Let him do what he wants. We dont tell you what to do all the time.

Thank you. If we told you to jump off the Empire State Building, would you mrmonkeyman?


Thank you BizarroSephiroth.

Your welcome

*smiles* At least one person in here is nice.
Its not like Im asking you to post you life. So what if it a fake. You dont have to send it. But to those who do thank you very much.

*smiles* At least one person in here is nice.
Its not like Im asking you to post you life. So what if it a fake. You dont have to send it. But to those who do thank you very much.

Yeah, I'm nice, but still not alot of people like me. Even though that poem may be fake, it doesn't hurt to try anyway. Lots of people don't like this stuff because they don't really understand it's meaning.

Yeah I agree.
I think its a fake but I really like the poem its self. So I thought that I would share it with everyone. If they like and send it to others good, and if they dont thats ok to. But they dont have to make the people who do like it feel bad.

Ignore mrmonkeyman he's a hateful person. I thought it was a beautiful poem and deserves to be sent on.

Chain mail pisses everyone off, therefore, we do not like people who promote and send along chain mail.

Then dont read it and dont send it.
All I ask is to stop tell people not to send it. Let them do what they want.

Why should we allow people to annoy the shit out of other people if we can at least try to prevent and do someone a favour.

You should edit your first post you know, the poem was written by David L Weatherford, not a fictional "little girl in New York".

Ignore mrmonkeyman he's a hateful person. I thought it was a beautiful poem and deserves to be sent on.

Thank you, someone finally understands.

Thank you, someone finally will tell me what i want to hear.

Well this is the first chain letter I've ever read that's worth sending on it's a good poem with a valid point and it hit me right in the heart.

MAN OH MAN DO I LOVE BEING SENT THIS STUFF OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

i hope that somehow this ends up in my inbox!

Chain letters are annoying, I got one before that was about this little girl who was gonna come and rip my eyes out if I didn't send it on.
Such bullshit.
Haven't recieved about 60,000 in the past 5 days.

Good poem but sending it around with false info on it telling people that a dying girl wrote it is just wrong also you should delete the part about the moneys being sent by the ACS.
other than that I thought it was a wonderful poem

Okay so it's a fake chain email, we get it already.

It is possible to ignore that and just comment on the poem, which is the point of this forum.

Fine, i think it's a regrettably bad poem with unoriginal imagery and repetetive rhyming that feels like it's just trying to connect the dots rather than make a poem.

All I did was copy what was sent to me. If you dont like the other stuff about the dying girl and all that then dont read it.

But how is a person supposed to know if they like something (or even what it is) if they don't read it? :(

Okay so it's a fake chain email, we get it already.

It is possible to ignore that and just comment on the poem, which is the point of this forum.


The forum is for original work, isn't it? Like, the kind that shriners create, and not the sort that they recieve in a chain letter. =\

And I agree with MMM on the quality. It doesn't seem at all like a poem written by a sick young girl. It looks like a poorly written song that doesn't give a hint of any kind of real personal expression, and I mean, if I read a poem that someone young was inspired to write because they were dying... even if the poem were technically poor I think you'd be able see some of that in it. Something that gave a sign of what they were going through and what they were feeling and not this trite nonsense. geh =\

Okay, okay. You guys are takingh it a bit overboard now it's just a poem. If you don't like it okay fair enough. If you do okay fair enough leave it at that huh.

Wonderful poem regardless of the truth behind the story. It should be passed on because of the message within the text. I have no doubt they can't track how many people it was sent to in order to donate but really that isn't the point. I'm so gutted that I can't write something so powerful.

wow what a great big pile of shite... why would anyone suggest that people continue this hoax wtf is wrong with you people who would want to continue a hoax that messes with people's feelings. how fucking stupid are some people. i think i've heard three voices of reason in this thread. the rest were the brainless rantings of the intellectually constipated

I don't like chain letters but it was a nice poem.

Wonderful poem regardless of the truth behind the story. It should be passed on because of the message within the text.
When i read that i nearly cried. It makes me a very sad panda

When i read that i nearly cried. It makes me a very sad panda
It was quite tear-jerking.