J32 The Parables 5 Poem by Simple Simon

“I’m going out, Father,
Give me my property-share,
For I wish to seek my fortune
Abroad, ” said his second son.

His property, he sold
For a value in gold,
And took his journey
Into a far away country

All his gold had been spent.
He was thrown in wants,
With his riotous living
And no support coming.

His search for job went in vain
As a servant, he fed swine.
The swine’s husk food, he ate,
In repentance, he cursed his fate.

He recalled those days bygone,
When his servants, one by one,
Stood before him with folded hands
And obeyed all his commands.

Realizing his sin against heaven,
He wished to go back again
As a servant, not as a son,
And seek his father’s pardon,

As he went out in quarrel,
He now lost his rights moral
So, he went to the farmhouse
To be a servant of that house.

Seeing his homecoming,
His father went running.
He hugged him tightly
And kissed him fondly.

”I’ve sinned against Heaven,
I’m unworthy to be your son.
Forgive my sin, ” cried the son,
“As a servant please take me in.”

His words, father ignored
And orders then he issued
“Give my son the best robes,
A gold ring and new shoes.”

For him, he held a grand feast,
And a calf cooked, the one fattest,
Everyone enjoyed the treat,
And said that was the one finest.

“A dead son came alive again.
He was lost and found again.”
Like this, he welcomed his son,
Whose love again he had won.

When the elder son came,
His servant then told him
Everything that happened,
On which, he became displeased.

In anger, he stood outside,
And refused to come inside.
He said, “I’m a loyal son, yet a feast,
Similar one, I never had in the past.”

“My son, with me you stayed long,
All that’s mine, to you they belong.
My dead son has come now.
My lost son is found now.”

“You join us in this grand meet
You give him this welcome-treat,
Let us forgive and forget
What he did, as he knew not.”