Prompt: Image of a country road.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHpbobP9Vm
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kgQAB00JQ
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7wxbRdZGX
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8MXsmm4PQ
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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LXFDWCJF1
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dE8o3csV9
Their friends, too, are condemned.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWZXbnKvyz
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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDrA57jrKU
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.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF99IPDyyp2
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ759FkpjWG7
You said our families would be safe.687Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBZ9VOMyGQ
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?
