The Empty Hole

A child tells his mother,
"Mommy I'm hurting on my tooth!
I'm not sure what's wrong with it,
but I think it might be loose!"

So the mother tells her child,
"It's quite alright dear.
You just have a loose tooth,
you have nothing to fear."

But the child was scared,
and didn't know what to say.
It was the first time in his life
he'd ever felt this way.

But it was more than just his tooth,
he looked up to her and said,
"Mommy what will happen,
if this feeling has no end?"

So she starred at him and said,
with a smile upon her face
"In life there are troubles
that will always come our way.

But the secret" she explained
"is not to turn away,
life is quite like this,
it's hard to explain."

Sooner or later
the child's tooth finally fell out,
where he then went to discover
the empty hole in his mouth.

He said, "Mommy I know what you meant,
what you said to me before.
'Cause my tooth is now gone
by my mouth is still sore.

Just like my tooth
in life there is lots of pain,
and it hurts and hurts
until it finally goes away.

But when the pain leaves you
it's not completely missing,"
He stuck his tongue in the hole
and slowly started lisping.

"See when the pain is gone
it leaves this big ole space,
And when there's nothing there
it feels like it's a waste.

But now I'm a big kid,
And a new tooth is gonna grow,
This is still painful,
but pretty soon it'll show.

The pain will be gone,
The hole will be full,
And in the end I'll know
how it felt to be pulled...

Once by your pain
And then by your joy
Cause the pain can only come
when I become a big boy!

So life is about holes
When your tooth falls out
But it has to do that
to make room in your mouth.

Because new teeth will come
And when they finally do,
They need room to fill
and you'll feel brand new!

The tooth can't fall
Without pain coming first
So life without goodness
has to have the worst.

Life is a mouth,
And the pain is my tooth
There will be times it's fine
and times where it's loose.

But when the hole is filled
And a new tooth in it's place
The pain is forgotten
along with the empty space.

So for good things to come,
There needs to be bad,
Because just like being happy
we have to be sad."

The mother was shocked,
And didn't know how
Her child understood all of this
simply from his mouth.

For life is like a tooth
And pain is like a hole
Before the joy of a new tooth,
you must experience being sore.