It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HTUPhuvCa
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvaPy1SASD
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eBbi3C9YU
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.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkazwlnZK7u
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Z7XVQw9eH
Their friends, too, are condemned.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLO7q4MomDS
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. 955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbR23DOCQm
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.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN72Abm5qCI
Eyes that scream, filth.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUA8rLTpN7E
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UbxK60DL3
You said our families would be safe.955Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJ7oQg6yNQ
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?
