Aciana

At sixteen you made a choice to pick up that cigarette light it and inhale. You thought you were so grownup a man who could make his own choice. But what if you'd known that breath at sixteen would leave your daughter fatherless at that very same age? Is she old enough to be alone to teach herself to drive? Is she old enough to make choices well at just sixteen years old? Is she old enough to replace your love with that of a teenage boy? Were you old enough to make the choice to leave your daughter fatherless at the young age of sixteen years old?

Did you know that the moment you took that first breath it would be for life? Did you know when you bought the first pack how strong the addiction would be? Did you know when you had your first cigarette it would steal half the sand from your life's hour glass? Did you know you were signing a lifelong contract that would take away everything? Did you know 47 was the last birthday you'd see? Did you know the sacrifices you'd made? What if you'd seen the tears to be shed and known just what you would miss the birthdays, the hugs the moments, the love stolen from you by the fine print on the contract you didn't know you'd s