Prompt: Image of a country road.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyC04DDT6Ta
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNZSovsT7T
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRhwg8djGW
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5DM8IcqWb
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.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQ513gDxmF
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TQDTVoRDv
Their friends, too, are condemned.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOS35gFpWL
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.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxQd649Nky
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.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTPGPNYrO9
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzG22QnqjtX
You said our families would be safe.696Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXaxmOaHO2
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?
