Slow Dance...

"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.

Never 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.

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."

A poem written by a young girl in New York, with cancer... Got this by email from my youngest sister just now.

Addition: Photo from my bike tour now in the evening. It is fairly dark... For being summer.