"You can’t help who you love and who you don’t
You can’t help If they will or If they won’t
Even if they are miles away,
In your heart they will always stay."
A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young child’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of “A Life Fighting Cancer Through a Child's Eyes” Website.
My name is Christine Mulvihill and I am a 15-year-old childhood cancer survivor. I thought that after I was discharged from the hospital everything would be normal or even sort of normal, but that’s not how this story goes. You see, somewhere through all this my soul has been scared and a curse cast upon myself, a curse I will take to my grave.
I hope the following stories and poems may be able to provide some hope, wisdom, and comfort to those fighting cancer or any other disease.
Who Am I?
I Am A Rainbow
Red is the color of my passion and rage
Red is the color that keeps me turning every page.
Orange, though it seems calm, is the color of fire
It’s the color that holds all my desires
Yellow makes me crazy and wild.
But is also the color that makes me soft and mild.
Green is the color as strange as it may seem,
holds the key to my fantasies and wildest dreams.
Blue is the color of my oceans of tears
Blue is the sky with all my fears.
Indigo, although pretty, makes me miserable because it’s always
Stuck in the middle of being happy and sad
Stuck in the middle of being mad or glad.
Violet is last not least the color that could make me “tres triste”,
Happy or hunger for food
It is the color that decides my mood.
But what happens when all these colors bind
They make my heart
my soul
my mysterious mind.
