The Great Escape

I woke up feeling dizzy

Not knowing where I am.

My stomach twirled sickly

I wanted to hurl on the floor.

The room felt familiar

A hazy shadow from the past

My head hurt from the fall

A nasty bump had grown.

My hands were bound

So were my feet

A gag tied tightly over my mouth

Preventing me from making a sound.

I tried to listen

But heard not a sound

Painfully I drifted back

To dreaming about BG town.

Hands tied not so tight

a little friction, soon loose

My feet the same,

meeting the same fate

I was free, CG was next,

try to escape and get back home,

no idea where we are,

an old house it seems

The newspaper lady's hands

tightly bound, a knot very complex,

would take time to untie her

A broken kitchen knife, I soon found,

helped in getting her free,

not as sharp but better than bare hands

Hoping Ewell won't check on us,

tied up again, we would be.

Bella freed my hands

And with her broken knife

I loosen the corner floorboard

Digging out the dirt

I found the hidden box

That once contain a copy

Of the deed to this land.

I grabbed the colt and the ammo

Praying it wasn't jammed

We peered over the stovetop

Out the window, we saw two men

Ewell tending his horse

The other sitting on a rock.

We couldn't escape outback

The path led to the desert

There was no way out .... Damn!

He had my dagger,

A gift it was, from my father

A family heirloom

I had to get it back

From the man who

Sat on the rock.

CG whispered in my ear

A plan she had thought

With a nod, I agreed.

I took the same spot on the floor,

Broken knife and rope hidden

Behind my back.

"Help! Save us! Help!"

I yelled, pretending to be tied.

Cursing loudly, he came in

and opened the door wide.

Quickly from behind the door

I whacked him on the head

With the butt of my gun.

He stumbled forward

and I grabbed his gun.

Then I shoved him hard

his face met the floor.

Bella sat on his back

And bound his hand

So, he couldn't attack.

"Wallace! What's going on?"

Ewell yelled almost at the door.

I fired at his leg to stall him

He screamed falling on one knee

His bullet struck the door frame

While I emptied mine in his heart.

My dagger I have to take

But first I have to tie him

Before he wakes.

The rope, it's around his wrist

But he throws me off

Defeated I cannot be,

I can't give up, I have to win

I cannot die, I have to return

to my horses and to my Brody.

The rope is almost undone

"I am going to kill you"

He struggles to untie the final knot

Near my foot, is my dagger

I grab it and lunge at him

The dagger pierces his skin

While his body slumps back dead.

Exhausted we stood by the gate

Tired from the bloodshed.

"Now what?" Bella asked

I handed her the reins

"First we go to Carson City

Then it's home to BG"