Stained Teeth

are you a good person?
or
a bad person?

are your teeth black with soot?
or
stained yellow from time?

do you think about what you’ve done
the good, the bad
but mostly the bad

or
do you bury it with your possessions, deep in the ground
so your faults life far beneath you
so no one can see or feel them

but you see them
and you feel them
when you speak
and when you run your tongue over your stained teeth