Eyes Wide Open

At 16 I ran away from home. Lots of reasons, but acne, braces, glasses were part of it. I got a ride by a guy in a pickup. I was put in a house with other girls, hooked on dru#s, prostituted, implanted with an IUD. Same with the other girls. One day a woman broke down the door with a man and a sledgehammer and after being detoxed, examined, cured of an STD and the poisonous IUD removed, I was asked if I wanted to go home.

I returned home a year older, obviously not the little girl who ran away. Older, street wise, but not smarter. I attended a remote learning school and graduated, met a man at Target, got pregnant, moved in with him. I picked the wrong man.

I'm no angel, I can't get my virginity back, I have a child, a single mom. One day I would like to say this was a nightmare. But the other me says, my choices took me there. The Devil will get it's bite of the apple and I can't do anything about it.