Hide What Happened

Police are looking for a teenager who fled after
strangling his seventeen-year old pregnant girl,
imagine his fear after listening to threats of
terrible punishment if a girl conceived through
him, the desperate attempt

To commit murder instead of facing consequences,
life not worthwhile as he was to be ostracized
once the forbidden deed was done – rather than
leaving the girl to her own fate and simply
flee, he sought a solution

In death she is safe from shame and humiliation,
he would have the opportunity to continue life
without evidence of transgression - plans
backfiring when police entered the scene,
catching him in the act

If he had known society would provide for him, the
the baby and his girl, would he still have killed
to hide what happened; or is he just a cold-
blooded murderer – I do not believe it…