I Can't Stop With Bad Choices

The motto of my family was always 'Avoid bad choices'. They never said how you were supposed to know.

For one I was pregnant at 17.

I chose cosmetology over college.

To avoid a second pregnancy I hooked up with another girl.

I bought a car I couldn't pay for.

And I wasn't 21.

I was given an opportunity, a choice. Marry Tim or go it alone.

One chance, one choice. A lifetime of poverty, or a 'wife' with this man.

I chose poverty. That's where I am.