It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFqx0Pv5jD
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOPIE9OujP
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZwuaUNFRb
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.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDrD9gOvZl
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStqJ1zaq5L
Their friends, too, are condemned.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8olQ02i4E
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. 879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVzaVtdSJG
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.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Z3E68lhQw
Eyes that scream, filth.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKvWEedVat
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovEXLXQi8Y
You said our families would be safe.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEK5Ah0jjc
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?
