“Send me word that he has come back,”

Said the prodigal son’s father.

“Admittedly, he often gets way off track,

Blows off steam easily and hasn’t any tact,

Yet his return is worth the bother.”

 

“Send me word that he has come back,”

Said the much-aggrieved son’s dad.

“He spent his share from what I had.

For he’s not much for filial piety and duty,

Instead, going after fast living and booty.”

 

“Send me word that he has come back,”

Said a most-proper patriarch.

“Any criticism is off the mark.

For P.C. and woke I can’t be.

if I ask for much, he’ll flee..

 

Send me word that he has come back,”

Said the prodigal son’s father.

“He’s back, come Hell or high water.

Kill the fatted calf and make amends

I’d like to see his familiar grin.

 

From a planet “scarcely bigger than a house”

The Little Prince has now returned

From a foreign land’s temptations

To where he once called his home.

“Send me word that he has come back.”

 

The last and first line of this poem is from Antoine de Saint Exupery’s The Little Prince.