Prompt: Image of a country road.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwuYZRj9zF
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0kmyuBU3g
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVaDQ9rD65V
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGE43ZPbVo
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.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxx4DEieEyK
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJyMKUaOpU
Their friends, too, are condemned.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAab5Jkdfvh
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.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVez2WmAc4E
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.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0c93GKDN6v
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkWC027KsD
You said our families would be safe.667Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyJc0mJGtn
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?
