Prompt: Image of a country road.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6vqD0vgeF
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXG19JZH9a
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtW71lwehOx
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPGdOa3hAN
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.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLY3AvUlAj
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQHI5rzmWZ
Their friends, too, are condemned.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41TusdefsX
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.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXw8zBQGJl
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.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfsh0oj4iS
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DCgwG7eRV
You said our families would be safe.665Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1BQsI5xpmm
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?
