CARIES OF THE MIND….A TEETHING PROBLEM

Habits seldom die, they say, no one heeds to this  golden say,

Remove one letter from it, a bit remains, wait just a minute,

Scrap the next letter, it still remains truly following your way,

Pay a hefty price for, our ignorance, negligence oft in pursuit,

Apart from hairs, our benign teeth head  the list  in numbers,

Thirty plus two, their numbers at times show more resilience,

Care we give them daily barely exceeds few hundred seconds

Dentine falls prey to culinary insults, an entry made in silence,

So too bad habits make silent entry within us, just to surmise.

Creeping within us, sans permission, some good, often  bad,

Growing,  affecting or effecting thy repute to size or capsize,

The will to thrive or profligate do  define our future instead.

Feeling the pain, we oft spot the caries, so too dent our name

Cavity or the dent to our psyche will decay tooth or our image,

Restoration awesome, all  painstaking and never be the same,

Character too a delicate one, a few only remember this adage.

Easy to scrabble , difficult to practice, so pains without gains,

The caries once go deep, tooth now  becomes no more vital,

Worries more than help, so too habits casting lasting stains,

Pluck them off, tooth or habits, the laurels wait in your citadel