Prompt: Image of a country road.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO06RLVrY1P
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG88jFgMDAB
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtEOpET1Q3
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkpArZGTL6
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.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IZAxEHLwZ
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjKtNDb1O9
Their friends, too, are condemned.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoDRvmrFF7
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.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0VoWoFAtc
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.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTRL18u8cA
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRmSi3yr8H
You said our families would be safe.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwfmOV72TA
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?
