The Original Prodigal Son

The first is Persephone, and her mother
Was fixing her hair when all the other
Immortals were choosing what power to claim
To have or actually take the tool that helped one obtain
Real power but she was late so she was stuck with the harvest
Which she could help with the rain, but people weren’t impressed
When Demeter did well, but when she didn’t they were irate
Which led her decide that her daughter should not wait
To marry so she set her daughter up on a date
With every single immortal Demeter liked, so the thirty
Or so that weren’t me – she thought my work was dirty
“Stay away from Hades!” the Grain Goddess would shout
The mother’s forbidding caused the daughter to seek me out
She found me and enjoyed the time she spent around me
We got married, which helped me to sleep more soundly
And made me more fair-tempered in everything I’d do
And as for the pomegranate myth, it simply isn’t true

Hera and Zeus had many children, but you would be hard
Pressed to name one who was ignored by each Greek bard
Yet is the most famous person to come out of Greece
And remember the bards ignored him, so it’s not Hercules
I’m referring to the power couple’s twenty-third son
Who was named Adonis before the pretty-boy mortal one
And didn’t like being subservient to his dad in the least
So he took some supplies and fled to the southeast

The opportunity there was too hard to resist
The people worshipped a being that didn’t exist
A man named Abraham, who many considered odd
Claimed to have conversations with this being called God
Who forbade statues of gods and divine images being engraved
Which appealed to many since that way money could be saved
And it didn’t hurt that Adonis’ name
And that of their god was almost the same