THE CALL HOME
30 years ago I came here; Alberta, for a year to make a million and go home. I'm late by 29 years and short about $980 thousand.
Alberta is a hard spot for an honest soul. If I had less care to be decent I would be going home (picture above) in greater style but I let my heart lead me. Alberta is "All head - no heart" (not that kinda head dirty minds).
I have been dreaming of this day since I left but i imagined it different. I had to make the mistake of falling in love with an Albertan woman. Not the first Newfie to do so but I won't choose.
This will be a page right out of the "Notebook". I will build it "proper" down home and wait for her. She will not know and may never know. I may wait forever and never see her again but I will wait...she laid her ring on my nightstand yesterday. That symbol of commitment, now back in the original box and tied neatly with a bow.
I just can not stay here anymore and I have to finish something my grandfather started a lifetime ago.