The description of the landscape was good. But it seemed to meander and didn't give a clear structure to the plot for me. The ruins of the houses confused me, at first being a small hamlet, but that was a hundred years ago, and then talking about how the houses were used as animal shelters.
It does convey a sense of loneliness, but I don't understand why the person is alone, or refuses to leave.
If you mean to leave it up to the reader if the narrator is a ghost or something else then well done.

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