One moment can change your life
Don’t try to think otherwise,
It isn’t always with a knife,
When you dream of what was before.

When that phone call came
You hardly even jumped,
When the counter rang,
Your mentality started to change.

Scampering through the halls
Scarcely able to inhale,
Your heart bounds as you dare to run,
From what feels like an endless fall. 

The car launches with trembling, rigid arms
You hold back so you’re not next,
What emerged like a world free from harm
Is purely distant from it.

When we get to the hospital it’s too late
She doesn’t know who I am,
Not even an insignificant trait.
My whimpers drop, I clogged my eyes...

You recognize how you didn’t know
Because you expected nothing.
That final weekend, not a second spent
Concerned with yourself-not even caring. 

One moment can change your life
Don’t ever think otherwise,
My moment took my mother
And in my father’s eyes, his loving wife.