Cain and Can Not #4 of series

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2004-04-15 08:47 AM

The Spring rains came not
So farmer Cain only planted a garden plot
From the river he did pay
The children of the town
Fetching water for three cents a day
To moisten his parched ground.
The main fields lay fallow
With no rain clouds to cast a shadow
He wasted not the seed,
But the poorer farmers had to try
For far greater was their need
Yet all the fields remained over dry.
Ruined farms and desperate men
One by one came to beg of him
He was known as a compassionate man
Yet he was left with little seed
And too many there with an open hand,
Cain could not all of them feed.
So his gold bought their earth
Paying a fair price for what it was worth
And they left to go to the city
Where they fished the river wide and flowing
Hoping there to find some pity
Yet not sure of to what life they were going.
Summer remained arid still
The blue skies not a cloud did fill
The peasants had no water,
Yet they could not there remain,
One tried to sell his young daughter
And all that was left was Cain.
“She will not make the journey
to the far off and struggling city”
The daughter was a young teen,
“It would best for her to warm your bed,
a kind man and not city mean”
The distraught mother with tears said.
So they left her and the land parched
Standing at the fence Cain just watched
For two gold coins bought a slave
Keeping her from the brothel or grave.

Gloom

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

1 posted 2004-04-15 09:43 AM

Perfect.
TD

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2004-04-15 10:05 AM

Professor,
An old story but you write it well, enjoying.

Sadelite
Member Elite

since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

3 posted 2004-04-18 04:29 PM

I enjoyed your whole series very much. Have a good day.
Sadelite

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

4 posted 2004-04-18 05:47 PM

Yet he was left with little seed
And too many there with an open hand,

good story telling...sometimes you have to make hard choices.

enjoying the tale

M

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

5 posted 2004-04-19 09:29 AM

Ohhhhhhhh...

Glad I went searching for this...

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

6 posted 2004-04-27 12:46 PM

Wondered where these went and found them too far down already. Great read!

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.