It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmUxPMwh0R
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnW4luwFFWa
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNq5kEc0uo
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.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIF2AFlxMFY
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAy4B3oq3lH
Their friends, too, are condemned.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3w6bWEmi1
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. 827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Xn9u1wjHe
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.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvkkjxLxcw
Eyes that scream, filth.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkL6lJgQFVa
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7gZ56negL
You said our families would be safe.827Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcaaYi5vA7
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?
