Prompt: Image of a country road.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nj0EB7Q70
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhr7Lnbakub
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDyylrwofk
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnOtJqH5hj
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.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBZURK5e3l
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7JPhQbGMA
Their friends, too, are condemned.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwinUYQlOg
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.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDu8aUA5u40
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.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjw3Jio1B77
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNmvjOPokI
You said our families would be safe.663Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkWVsy7Hdf
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?
