It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjC7Ap2eca
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡta6YKYJspa
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIDc9H5ZOR
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.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPpFrTFAlXx
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pGyc1chu1
Their friends, too, are condemned.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomwGy4S80u
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. 881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNCCFNX898
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.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQYwkSBDP1
Eyes that scream, filth.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSR7WsxwlX7
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfY3IAQn27S
You said our families would be safe.881Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxVsanTEVF
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?
