Prodigal Loves

The most important thing in life is family—even a fool knows as much, but somehow it comes to pass that the chicks fly away from the nest (this part is natural and a fact of life), but so, too, does the father of the house, or the mother—as if there were a crack in the home that let love escape like an unfortunate river ending in an ocean of consequence. So it may be. but what cracks must find out is that a man, a real family man, he fixes things. For his family, he will bend the rules of reality itself to make his children smile, to alter what must be altered in himself, if need me, and until his breath goes and his light goes out, he will protect them, make things right—and he will be ready for the homecoming of his prodiga love s