“Home Again”

Saturday of the Second Week of Lent
Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030726.cfm

With comforts and stable security,
A place was kept for me to lay my head,
But such gives want to curiosity
For multitudes beyond my daily bread.

My vice became my greatest companion:
An empty squinting eye in early dawn,
The taste remaining in the unleavened
Unabandoned until the rest is gone.

A prison for the illusory free,
There I was abandoned by my choosing.
Turning my back on the care given me,
To find my winnings were decadent losing.

Welcoming me back home with more to share,
The loving embrace always waiting there.