No. 25: Comfort candy

Another mother

has gone home from Karolinska Hospital

and has left her daughter,

her name is Anneli,

with a bag of candy

as consolation.

The “Non-Stop” candy,

the candy coated chocolate lenses,

are beautifully colorful.

Yellow, red, green, brown, black, orange.

The girl steals the bag of candy from Anneli.


The girl usually never gets candy.

And the girl is only two years old,

so she doesn't even eat Anneli's Non-Stops.

She just plays with them

and crushes them.

Non-Stop.


Anneli screams

and cries.

Over the loss.


And the girl's mother

promises herself

to never

ever

leave her own daughter

with a bag of candy

as consolation.

 

At Karolinska Hospital 1968

#ThePruneBellyGirl #PruneBelly #PruneBellySyndrome #rarediseases #survivor #childhood #handicap #autobiography #disability #childrenshospital #karolinska #separations  

These poems are originally written in Swedish and translated by myself. So if the translation sounds weird - please just laugh, or cry, or just shake your head and move on to the next poem, hoping for a better translation there... Thank you for your patience, and for following my story! By the way - my lyrics sometimes sounds weird in Swedish too...


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