Slow Dance

Some thing I pick while reading "The 4-Hour Work week" by Tim Ferriss.
This Poem is written by child psychologist David L. Weatherford
Makes me step back to reexamine my life.

SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-around?

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?

Each 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

=THE END=