He is just like you and me, a guy who wants to live in peace with his family. He didn't receive too much education, just some primary classes; therefore, he only knows how to write his name and how to calculate elementary sums. The sweat on the face of this harvester impregnates his body and his rough hands are derived from labor. Those hands are the only tools he has to feed his humble and numerous family members. You can hear the silent and fertile land, a factory of dreams where the seeds grow up. But his life turns down from uncertainty. The queen of evil, violence, has displaced his family out of their house. A playing-card castle falls over his heart trying to take his life out. There is no time to think since the threat will always be present. They can barge into his house at any moment to kill him; however, there is no place to go. Now that someone has cut the few roots he has grown, he started to listen to his father's words about how hard life is. Is he responsible for what they have done to him? How does it feel to be like a tree on the border of an abyss? His head is now like the fog, a dense and heavy cloud. A maze without exits surrounds his unintelligible thoughts. His sons smell the fear of a frustrated body behind them. Their innocence is part of the past like their home, toys and tranquility. They have perceived the frightening emptiness in their father's eyes since they started to walk. The road he has walked all his life becomes darker and deserted. There is nothing for him to say to his unconditionally loving wife; they talk with their eyes. His life is the only valuable thing remaining because no one has taken it out yet, that's why life is a circle and his sons exemplify the continuation of this meaningless existence. All he knows is that he has to leave the place where he was born, the house that he built and the land that he worked for. Tomorrow there will be no place to sow happiness for this harvester of sorrow. This is going to be a long journey to the end of nowhere.

 

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