It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiFXDYMS8QS
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGa6MDOfc0y
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UJQ93Jpv1
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.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iqekTksvJ
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0c3uWRQ7gV
Their friends, too, are condemned.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rUm6OltP2
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. 953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvG5r32PXDb
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.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRW6NK8yMNR
Eyes that scream, filth.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1D2oZsTDm
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFLxMAAInz
You said our families would be safe.953Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgR6Qy93WOd
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?
