The toothache escalation

Dear toothache 

You bringer of pain

Driving us insane 

Are you mad or blind

Or just viciously unkind 

Like an unwanted guest

You come uninvited

Overstaying your welcome 

Refusing to go

Like a squatter

You illegally make your home

In our poor tooth

Making us have to

Painfully try to evict you

For a backache you apply balm

And use a hot and cold compress

For a knee pain you apply a spray

Take an inflammatory medication 

And you’re good to go again

You do the same

When a headache bothers you

But what do you do

When you have a stubborn toothache 

You can take painkillers

And apply some cloves

But when their affects wears off

It back to square one

And if that wasn’t enough

You recruit other parts

In your evil scheme

Of tormenting the life out of us

All leading to a visit to the dentist

To be seated on chair

That’s no less a torture 

Like sitting on the iron throne

The only thing different

Is the blades are your toothache

So you have the drilling

And the injecting

The x-rays and the root canals

And the bridges, implants and filling

And if gall doesn’t work

Then it means a painful extraction 

With eating ice cream 

The only positive outcome

Of a painful procedure 

So in the end you have your brains

Scrambled and numbed by pain

There’s a fire in your mouth

That burns a huge hole in your pocket

Oh toothache

You are made and blind

So cruelly unkind

Driving the poor us insane