shark teeth

i used to stay up till 4am crying,
because i was so worried that you'd die.

and because i'd promised that if anyone dared to call you names
i would knock their front teeth out.

sometimes you can't keep promises as well as you can teeth.

i should have a box with twenty something peoples incisors in it.
but i don't.

i have a necklace with a sharks tooth on it that my dad gave me,
it reminds me that i need to stay up and cry.


(and shark teeth grow back anyway,
so some things are just totally fucking pointless.)