It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbt7LkHtNmU
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOjyVKmkJz
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4QvnJz3cO
I tell myself this as I walk down the road, fields passing by and their cries fading away, but it doesn't stop their tears from stinging more than mine.
Death awaits me in a carriage, with a uniform and a mustache. On his wrist, a watch that my family and I would never be able to afford with a lifetime of savings, counting down the hours until I die. It may be just twenty four. It may be over a thousand. Little metal hands clicking clockwise eternally, but eventually even their cold insides will rust and grind to a halt.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fPIneEUQL
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5W1Q08CVx
Their friends, too, are condemned.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp72COb5rNU
Solemn glares all round, no greetings or banter now. We've come to fight against our own country in return for our family's safety. 873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQy1UYgQVOM
They say that we are the spineless, but when you have to walk past the people that may die by the hands of the army you join, no one can say that we lacked the moral fiber to look them in the eyes.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYGWeF7za9M
Eyes that scream, filth.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLgLacMStY
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRjYsjek0w
You said our families would be safe.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPid6NlKpsy
But the watch hands keep ticking, the wheels keep rolling, and the lone hearts keep breaking, because since when was a coward's promise kept?
