#death poetry
The tooth fairy leaves a coin under your pillow.
Grievers leave two coins on your eyes when you die.
These events are not unrelated.
She leaves a coin and takes a bone because she is your first reminder of your mortality.
She takes the first bones your body will lose and in exchange she gives you your first coins.
Like a child you lose them, or spend them - but they will return to you….
…in time.
Your body changes… ages… and your teeth -the only bones to have seen the world-
- taste it -
are your first reminder.
Childhood ends.
No matter how long you are a child.
