Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Return of the Prodigal


You left

before you left, you know--

and couldn't know how far you'd gone

or how far you'd need to go--


packed up the Spirit and Truth

of your youth,

hid them behind your 80-proof,

spent all your time

with Jack* and Jim** and Mary Jane***

always trying, always failing

to forget from whence you came.


This time the leaving

has brought you back home.

How far you'd gone...

How far you've come!


*Jack Daniels

** Jim Beam

***Marijuana

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