Weekends and Every Other Tuesday

weekends & every other tuesday today she beats herself up because she hadn’t thought ahead she’d gone with her emotions full steam into a romance & in it she lost her head, she believed in what she thought would always last until it didn’t & somewhere along the way she got pregnant--- as things will go, he decided that she, being younger & highly involved in her climbing her own particular career ladder, would lead her to not be around as much, custody was made joint & so now she sees her daughter on the weekends & every other tuesday--- still, many of her friends say she got lucky, that with a better bunch of lawyers & a whole lot of funds, he could have walked away from her completely, making more of the amphetamines which she dabbled in to stay up for a couple days on end to finish the crunch of a school semester--- now firmly rooted in her own path & with success just looming over the horizon, a life that to her could have been as full & bright as a storybook tale, is tainted with the mistake made of which all she can do is learn & hope her daughter doesn’t do the same.