It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDkICWTcTs
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0NPEood0C
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYalSzrtU0
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.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwpPbJjcMo
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAROdJJoFNG
Their friends, too, are condemned.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtx3nxYiftb
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. 821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3XKJKO2Z0
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.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Ivq5DK6NH
Eyes that scream, filth.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidmwu9cNdY
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVWTAkVrQf
You said our families would be safe.821Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6oPOqeBMO
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?
