FOUR Strikes, You're Out

This is my mom's life- I'm one of the kids. Can you guess which?

A beautiful girl: honor student, popular friend, handsome boyfriend.
Alone, afraid, and abused.
Seeking love.

First love: a child, her own to raise, a baby boy.
Seventeen years old, low paying jobs, dirty diapers.
A new boyfriend, common sense abused.

Second mistake: a little girl, reminder of her idiocy, yet impossible to hate.
Twenty years old, running from life, empty baby bottles.
A new boyfriend, afraid to go home.

Third blessing: curly haired angel, blue eyed beauty, everyone’s favorite.
Twenty- four years old, beginning to live, lost pacifiers.
Searching for love, unable to stop.

Last chance: red headed son, knows no mother, all of them taken away.
Twenty- eight years old, life’s no fun, out of diapers.
Sad and alone, no one to love.

~Aubriana Jamese Johnston~
Written February 8, 2007