Prompt: Image of a country road.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSE1C8ylzY
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE53Xbkha6B
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZzIKOlZ9b
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDIFV3dEw9
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.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJGqRMfplW
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhX05KCuAhw
Their friends, too, are condemned.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLt6Dc1M6QP
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.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUByZV7GG1u
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.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqefD6ZqD5Q
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIimAWsccaZ
You said our families would be safe.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDzTy8fiwO
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?
