Man’s Conquest of Home

Oh, little mountain valley,
Narrow as a twig.
How much you have changed,
And how cruelly you have been bent.
Once you were quiet and sleepy,
Your land and beauty unspent.
Man has filled you up,
And taken what God can’t.

Jeffery Tyler Syck

Jeffery Tyler Syck is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Center for Public Service at the University of Pikeville in his native Kentucky.