Risk Draft # 2

Draft # 2

If she ever thought about him

and she tried not to,

for it reminded her

of the unravelling of her youth,

she supposed the attraction

had been in his daring,

his bold-faced defiance

of convention,

an attraction that left

with  marriage and the onset of parenthood

and responsibility beyond self

understanding too late

only then had she seen the weakness

behind alcohol induced swagger,

knowing the only risk taken

had been in choices she’d made.