You Better Slow Down...
              

             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 in 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 100 chorus 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 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 getting there.
             When you worry and hurry through each day
             It is like an unopened gift...thrown away
             Life is not a rat race, do take it slower
             Hear the music before the song is over.
             

                      (Written by a terminally ill girl on 
                            her death-bed in a NY Hospital)