The Lonely Men

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Bachelors, Hardship, Pioneers, Saskatchewan, Settlers, Solitude / January 17, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Their little dark houses still dotted the prairie when I was growing up

They all seemed to cling to he soil as if their life force had all been used up in the long and difficult transplanting, and they could hang on but no longer grow
Or they stood alone surrounded by sadness and the small and smaller markers of what had fallen to the reaper's scythe

Their roots, loosened year after year
by the hot winds and the deep frosts became more and more brittle

Until one by one they broke off like tumbleweeds and were gone

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Iudita Harlan January 17, 2024 at 7:13 am

Beautiful

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