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title: ▍Slow Dance
created: 2026-07-17
modified: 2026-07-17
authors: David L. Weatherford
category: Poem
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> Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?
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> Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
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> Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
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> Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
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> <mark>You better slow down.</mark>
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> <mark>Don’t dance so fast.</mark>
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> <mark>Time is short.</mark>
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> <mark>The music won’t last.</mark>
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> Do you run through each day on the fly?
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> When you ask: “How are you?” do you hear the reply?
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> When the day is done, do you lie in your bed, with the next hundred chores running through your head?
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> <mark>You’d better slow down.</mark>
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> <mark>Don’t dance so fast.</mark>
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> <mark>Time is short.</mark>
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> <mark>The music won’t last.</mark>
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> Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow?
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> And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
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> Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die, cause you never had time to call and say “Hi”?
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> <mark>You’d better slow down.</mark>
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> <mark>Don’t dance so fast.</mark>
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> <mark>Time is short.</mark>
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> <mark>The music won’t last.</mark>
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> When you run so fast to get somewhere, you miss half the fun of getting there.
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> When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift thrown away.
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> <mark>Life is not a race.</mark>
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> <mark>Do take it slower.</mark>
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> <mark>Hear the music before the song is over.</mark>