Memory of a Tooth

One day standing at the pond

I said something wrong

I don’t know what

But it must have been bad



Your eyes turned dark and cold

Your glare seem to pierce my soul

Your expression left nothing unsaid

Something I’d seen many times before



You screamed at me

How useless and stupid I was

Harshly reminding me

I would never be anymore than trash



You drawed back with a fist

Hit me so hard

It knocked out a baby tooth

And left me seeing stars



Stunned and shocked

Knowing to say nothing

I bent down picked up my tooth

And buried it all away



The memory of that day

Followed me thru my life

The tooth a keepsake

Of which I couldn’t let go



Long ago grown

I went again to that pond

Standing in the pouring rain

I knew it was time to let go



I held in my hand the tooth

Taken from safe keeping

My tears mixing with the rain

I tossed that tooth into the pond



With the cleansing

Of my tears and the rain

I laid to rest in that watery grave

All that haunted me from that day



Releasing me from

The ties that bound me

Setting me free…

I finally let go…



All of my fear, my hurt and pain

Slowly sank away

To the bottom of the pond

With that tooth