Slow Dance

I don't know who this poem was written by, if anyone knows please let me know so I can attribute it.  It was re-published in The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss, which I have recently completed reading and highly recommend for anyone wishing to know how to live a truly mobile and free lifestyle and still earn income so you're not living in a van down by the river, or in a heavily fortified vintage camper on a former horse ranch in Northern Colorado.

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 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.