"Notification", By Brian37
You take it for granted
That loved ones are there
You never want to envision
A time they are not
Just now
Watching a rerun
Of CHIPS
It hit close to home
This was no show
Not for me
But watching this episode
I now see
John got a call
From Sargent Getrear
While having lunch
At a taco stand
He was called to task
To give the bad news
That a wife lost her husband
In a car accident
While only a show
I far too well know
What it was like
In a real emergency room
To have a doctor
Give you the news
To watch my mother
Do what she chose
Sudden or terminal
It doesn't matter
I don't envy
The messenger
I wish with all might
I'd wake up
In the middle of the night
And find it was all a bad dream
Just an episode
Where at the end
Mom makes it through
Like she had in the past
Doctor or cop
Or family or friend
Nobody wants that call
Nobody wants that news
I wish it were
All a TV show
Where the hero wins
Everyone makes it home
My hero mom
Didn't survive
I don't envy the doctor
That gave her the news.
You take it for granted
That loved ones are there
You never want to envision
A time they are not
Just now
Watching a rerun
Of CHIPS
It hit close to home
This was no show
Not for me
But watching this episode
I now see
John got a call
From Sargent Getrear
While having lunch
At a taco stand
He was called to task
To give the bad news
That a wife lost her husband
In a car accident
While only a show
I far too well know
What it was like
In a real emergency room
To have a doctor
Give you the news
To watch my mother
Do what she chose
Sudden or terminal
It doesn't matter
I don't envy
The messenger
I wish with all might
I'd wake up
In the middle of the night
And find it was all a bad dream
Just an episode
Where at the end
Mom makes it through
Like she had in the past
Doctor or cop
Or family or friend
Nobody wants that call
Nobody wants that news
I wish it were
All a TV show
Where the hero wins
Everyone makes it home
My hero mom
Didn't survive
I don't envy the doctor
That gave her the news.