It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsyrZsjqLd
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDovfU5aw5
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7B8UrD3On
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.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4OgM8Mh6s
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14xNOzTWnR
Their friends, too, are condemned.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgiyDt4rh7Y
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. 883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPe6MMtearu
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.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclE1dw2dky
Eyes that scream, filth.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPXQA7JLRA
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIk6VO61zjb
You said our families would be safe.883Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZS2ITFNUA
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?
