It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTiFTV11wA
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkuiVsOtwLY
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYT2Ymbdorj
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.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSOjajAGi9
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukjCp7ppGF
Their friends, too, are condemned.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61T7CBBGVz
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. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWKEnXhf9j
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.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1prkTnTMMW
Eyes that scream, filth.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYGziXKsb4
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOYH7vkOUL
You said our families would be safe.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzGx1aPwh5
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?
