It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xVC2WBic8
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uJ8doMhTp
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCBRsRlsbw
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.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHo2URNh200
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL08O2ZBYJY
Their friends, too, are condemned.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIkiflcJoN
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. 957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjhq7Spf5m
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.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UUSYWXJw7
Eyes that scream, filth.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsev4Dp8Ve
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmjqxKSJnA
You said our families would be safe.957Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECtbPT0tMP
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?
