Hello Annie and welcome to the site.

This poem is very good and reminded me a little of myself. I have to confess to being a bit of a tearaway in my youth and made a fair few mistakes, but then I met my wife and had children and everything changed.
As you point out, there's no more room for errors from that point on as the loss of a child's love would be something most parents simply couldn't live with.
Well done on this and keep writing,

SL

*double post

Annie, what a fantastically written piece about finding that special someone and having children, as Sir L from that moment no more mistakes though some do make them.

All the best, Em