Prompt: Image of a country road.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68OKQQklYn
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFO6IR2Mk9
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4twr0OgQEB
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkUUpzIcW3
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TCmmsAz7u
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONRNUkGXll
Their friends, too, are condemned.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPiqE608AR
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7dhJ2BxIX
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.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJO2pJ6Gre
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQirT2iy02
You said our families would be safe.725Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4VWRumT02
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?
