Unignorable

Doctors often think of death

We get too much to see

Your job is mainly to protect

Nature's to fall free

In the end you must fail;

Knowing that is key

When someone ends

You touch silence

Air vacuumed from the room

Lungs sucked dry

Listening for breath,

You only hear your own

Inhale; make sure it's real

No applause when this drama's done

Your clipped calls reach shocked quiet

Forms get typed with paler hands

When in training I was told

Every time a patient dies

You die a little

Does that leave less of you?

More a will to work more

Fail better

Yet steeling yourself to fall free

Knowing that is key