One Family's Journey
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"Day by day, she was coming back to being a baby Not growing, eight kilos, eight kilos, eight kilos Breathing every second
Nothing changing, not growing. Again, back to the hospital
Again, switching places, I stay, you go
Again, switching hospitals, coming back home to again go back to the hospital Living there
Maybe she’s not going to come back home No immediate solutions
Yet, she is standing by her chair at 2, she has learned to walk at 3, still only 8 kilos Every time, she wants to play
She is making her name special
Maybe she will leave if we, we can take her to that country Hope came with leaving
Hope: tomorrow will be better, we keep going even when we don’t know what will happen. Even the other siblings suffer
The oldest holds her with a new baby on the way, fear sets in
Our sister is mom,, all we have, in this new country is the cause of our sister Yet, leaving comes with jealousy, there is no life in the camp
Happy to arrive in the cold, it is warm inside The doors open
So many strangers, we don’t understand each other except for one A stranger among many, the one who speaks our language
The one who is “doing”, “doing for our family like she is doing for herself”. Waiting in quarantine, waiting in a house of reception
Then, even in this country, back to the hospital, Here again, switching places, I stay, you go
Here again, coming back to the hotel to again go back to the hospital Here again, maybe she is not going to come back to our new home
There is HOPE
Hope: tomorrow will be better, we keep going even though this can happen or this can happen.
Even here, there is no guarantee
“We can’t ask them to stop because she’s sick”, we must trust, we must accept that even here, here again, we are back in the hospital as the “this” that can happen has happened Once again, maybe she is not going to come back home
We had to learn to trust before, we learn to trust again, even here, here again We believe that there’s a solution
Tomorrow will be better
We keep going even though we don’t know what will Even here, once again, every time she wants to play"