Prompt: Image of a country road.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkipRxkRCMT
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRTuqmCC2o
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGTSjQlyIF
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvDlvmSbJD
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.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCIJQpTxES
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNaHTZHJPg
Their friends, too, are condemned.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCnrROmMB2
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.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Lucg7q4mW
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.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8F9g1okHJ
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WRj3SLHNn
You said our families would be safe.709Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKVZGjtYqU
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?
