It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2c3OIp1nK
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXQZZQvO5k
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6zVQgUbKy
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.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc26spZ20e8
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcalwcoxzz
Their friends, too, are condemned.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJThFUVRu2W
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. 927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ469IlfruQV
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.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatH6SKXmZe
Eyes that scream, filth.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwx5OxDhK6E
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhLzELAK1k
You said our families would be safe.927Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2vyVYHLtb
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?
