Every Prodigal Failure

blames themselves for where they are,
particularly when they are in a bad place.
They further blames themselves
for never knowing how well off they were
when the times they lived in were better.

But every prodigal also knows
that to get past the blame games
that made them blame themselves,
even though they did not deserve it,
the loss may be all they have,
they must work with it to change it,
from a loss to who knows what?

Recovery from prodigal loss
comes only from working our changes
until nobody wants to know us for who we once were.