If Only I Could Go Back.

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  If Only I Could Go Back

       It was around 9:00 pm and the atmosphere was charged. The roads were blocked and the police were to be found on every corner. A search was in place, I was the suspect. My clothes were stained with blood, not my blood but Eve’s blood. My face was covered with dirt as though I had taken a dip in a pigsty.

      Suddenly just behind me I heard a booming sound “Freeze, don’t move”, but I was too faint to synchronize with a response. Red and blue lines were flashing before my guilty eyes, it was the police. They had found me; I was handcuffed on the spot and thrown into the back of a van like a captured animal thrown into his cage. I was read out my rights “You have the right to remain silent, anything you say or do can be used against you in a court of law”.

       That was it, I had been on the run for 4 consecutive days. My stomach lunched with hunger, my body desperately urged for rest but worst of all I was ruined. I was filled with intense regret. Although a sense of denial ran through my head, my conscience overcame the effect and I knew what I had done was wrong. “Too late now” I thought to myself.

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       As I neared the place of my judgment with the last bit of strength in me I shouted aloud “God Forgive Me”. Time seemed to crawl as freedom raced its way out of my life. I was utterly left to rot. Fear and regret was all I could think of. My sense of fear was so strong, that I began to cry. My emotions overpowered me once again and the more I thought of the crime I had committed the more I continued to cry.

       I then arrived at the police station ...

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