Slow Dance (poem)

by purplesofa 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    thought you all might like this poem.....:) i did not write it.......I think we can all relate

    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.

  • serendipity
    serendipity

    Very nice & very true. Especially for parents, especially for JWs.

  • Calliope
    Calliope

    i love this:

    Life is not a race.

    Do take it slower

    Hear the music

    Before the song is over.

    this is all there is.

    calliopé

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug

    ah makes me think of John Cougar M. I know you of all people would know this song. I love it. It is not as upbeat...but at the same time it chears me up. Loud and in the headst. Absolutely beautiful.

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    Without Expression

    Have you ever ridden horses through a rainstorm?
    Or a lion through a busy street bazarre?
    There are many things I'd love to turn you on to
    But somehow I feel they're safer where they are
    Yes, there's a man I know
    With no expression
    He's got none at all
    Yes, there's a man that I know
    With no expression, darling
    He's got none at all

    Well, some people are inbound with infatuation
    And some others spill depression as the law
    From one's mother getting at no imagination
    So beware then, maybe sin is at your door

    Yes, there's a man that I know
    With no expression
    He's got none at all
    Yes, there's a man I know
    With no expression
    He's got none at all

    But you may never, never
    See this man laughing
    Come to think of it,
    I've never seen him cry
    But he might be sitting
    And you hear him singing
    And by and by he'll stop and sigh
    Before his voice would even begin to speak
    And he'd just cry

    Yes, There's a man I know
    With no expression, darling
    He's got none at all
    Yes, There's a man that I know
    With no expression
    He's got none at all

    Have you ever, ever ridden horses through a rainstorm?
    Or a lion through a busy street bazarre?
    There are many things I'd love to turn you on to
    But somehow I feel they're safer where they are

    Yes, There's a man that I know
    With no expression
    He's got none at all
    There's a man that I know
    With no expression
    He's got none at all


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    Ok, I really went left on that one. Sorry. But PS. Tell me you know it, Do you?

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    SNOW PATROL LYRICS "Chasing Cars"

    We'll do it all
    Everything
    On our own

    We don't need
    Anything
    Or anyone

    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

    I don't quite know
    How to say
    How I feel

    Those three words
    Are said too much
    They're not enough

    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

    Forget what we're told
    Before we get too old
    Show me a garden that's bursting into life

    Let's waste time
    Chasing cars
    Around our heads

    I need your grace
    To remind me
    To find my own

    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

    Forget what we're told
    Before we get too old
    Show me a garden that's bursting into life

    All that I am
    All that I ever was
    Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

    I don't know where
    Confused about how as well
    Just know that these things will never change for us at all

    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug
    Ever lost touch,

    Let a good friendship die

    Cause you never had time

    I have been guilty of all the above. Damn that is a great reminder.

    and too

    I need your grace

    To remind me

    To find my own

    I like that.

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