A Tooth for a Tooth is a Tooth

Justification is superfluous.

A tooth for a tooth is a tooth.

Removed cavities are replaced

with ease by the dentist, but it

is soul-wrenching for the patient.

Agonizing pain shoots through

numb nerves at the removal of

destruction.

the process is necessary

they say.

But the pain remains.

A tooth is a tooth.

A tooth for a tooth is still a tooth.