A/N: Written for the 100 Prompts challenge, #095 - jelly.

Hospital Jelly

He was a child dawdling
in an adult world
but he rathered that
then dying while still a child –
with ice-cream and jelly and colour balloons
as if that fixed it all.

He was old enough to know it wouldn't
and old enough to die –

No, that wasn't true. Everyone
was old enough to die.