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Based upon the parable as recorded in Luke 15:11–32 of Holy Writ
See him in the vast
Untamed land
Home buffeted by wind and sand.
Future not constrained by past.
He is the younger son
Of two.
Who will be the first to bid adieu?
Although younger, he’s the one.
One day he asks his dad
For his share of the pie.
Though he will comply,
The father is troubled — and very sad.
But does as asked and grants the plea.
The son, flush with cash,
Leaves with not a little panache.
For he’s convinced at last he’s free.
He journeys to a distant place
Where no one tells him what to do.
He wines and dines, runs money through.
But where sin abounds, so does grace.
Fate is fickle, friendships too.
As money dwindles, so do friends.
As all hath beginnings, all hath ends.
This much he learns is true.
