withdrawal symptoms.

it is a toothache pain, a useless act of missing what you can't have right now, cradling everything soft in your bed, thinking about how good it was to you when you had it.

there was nothing wrong with the candy. the pain is caused not by the candy, but by the absence of it.

you aren't suicidal. you fill your mouth with other foods, fill yourself until you are sick of food, and then you go to sleep. but you are still hungry, you go to sleep thinking of it, and with your sweet tooth bellowing on empty, you fall unconscious into the longing, cradled in everything soft and fading.