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In this poem, a woman who has been caught by the authorities must try to warn her approaching love of their presence. He is
a bandit of the road, a highwayman, and will be killed if he returns to the town. The woman, tied up in a bedroom, maneuvers
a shotgun to under her chest and pulls the trigger with her feet. The shot warns her love of trouble but she is killed. It
was her choice to not warn her beloved and watch him die or sacrifice her own life to save his.
This poem is the reversal of what we see in many songs and stories. Usually the man sacrifices himself for his woman. However,
in this poem the woman sacrifices herself to save her fugitive love.
Death - by Mattson Griffiths
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