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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.

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.

 
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?  ...

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