If you live in a quaint country town <br />Or travel to other places <br />I’m sure you have seen at one time <br />Scraps and parts and traces <br /> <br />Of old barns and filling stations <br />For some reason they still stand <br />After many years have gone by they sit <br />On worn out nearly vacant land <br /> <br />It brings a tear to my eye ‘cause I know <br />They’re a shadow of what they’d been <br />Animals lived in these barns and worked <br /> ‘Long side generations of farming men <br /> <br />You can imagine what kind of automobile <br />Drove up these old filling stations <br />Something we only see in pictures <br />Certainly there were different creations <br /> <br />But even though it’s almost over <br />For these structures could fall any time <br />I have to smile sadly because <br />They managed to live way past their prime!<br /><br />Marilyn Lott<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tired-barns-and-filling-stations/
