White Balloon

The daughter was handed a white balloon which soon became an inconvenient but most treasured item. A kind of friend in fact. As we all know and the daughter soon found out, the lifespan of balloon is relatively short and it´s demise can be rather abrupt and distressing. Her first encounters with mortality caused great impression and spawned a kind of obsessive desire for white balloon. "Wanty white balloon" a faint voice would cry on any occasion. What´s more the analogies with white balloon would come flooding in.
A firecracker bang; "went pop like white balloon"
The irresistable destruction of mummy´s sandcastle "just like white balloon"
A chair is devastated under daddy´s weight in an explosion of plastic splinters "like saskia´s white balloon".
Everything that comes to an end does so "like White Balloon"