Slow Dance -

[kassi59]

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.

[limebrook1]

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Lovely, Kate!

[beegud2]

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Very nice and soooo true Kate.

[Astraltraveller]

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Greetings Kate,
Very nice and true.
Have fun I gotta run next rocket awaits.

[SChajin]

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So true, time is short and you never know what is around the corner. Sometimes you don't want to know.

[mark6110]

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Beautiful sentiment Kate,
I must say that I am of the opinion that life is in fact, too long!
We all seem to believe that we have enough time to put off things till later. I don´t know if slowing down is the answer, but spending the time with people we love and never missing an opportunity to tell them we that love them, and forgiving them without wasting the time on punishing, would seem to me to be a better use of our "too many days".
I have had a long time to think about how lonely it is without my Dad, I honestly believed that I would eventually have the time to really tell him how I felt. Instead I seem to have had a very long time to regret my delay.
Thank you for reminding me to spend more time making someone feel loved.

[SChajin]

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I agree with Mark to a point, yes maybe life is to long if the ones that you love are gone. My son; I tell him I love him every time we speak which is every day and he is 34 years old. There are the ones that I can't tell them I love them anymore as they passed away, but I do anyway. Make time, it takes nothing to say "I love you".

[bill2006]

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And with that heading I was ready to tango.

I did read it all, very nice.

[kassi59]

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Beautiful sentiment Kate,
I must say that I am of the opinion that life is in fact, too long!
We all seem to believe that we have enough time to put off things till later. I donīt know if slowing down is the answer, but spending the time with people we love and never missing an opportunity to tell them we that love them, and forgiving them without wasting the time on punishing, would seem to me to be a better use of our "too many days".
I have had a long time to think about how lonely it is without my Dad, I honestly believed that I would eventually have the time to really tell him how I felt. Instead I seem to have had a very long time to regret my delay.
Thank you for reminding me to spend more time making someone feel loved.

Wonderful - Its like the line says about the amounts of breaths vs the moments that take our breath away -...what you do with time is much more important than the amount of time!
Very good points.