Et nydelig dikt til ettertanke

[Pelikan]

Fikk dette diktet på mail i dag. Det var skrevet av en jente med uhelbredelig kreft. Synes det var så flott skrevet, at jeg bare må dele det med dere.

>
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.

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Noe å tenke over, ja.

[Kate]

Det var vakkert. Og det hadde mye sannhet i seg.