It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvFgchKXGG
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwLptLAUH7
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lnxEp9KBF
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.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKWKtL2xsx
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbnXR2Bw7V
Their friends, too, are condemned.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21M1XXNUg7
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. 853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuYfTcJW6d
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.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH984YcDFCm
Eyes that scream, filth.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzgts93PgN
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8a2G6r6gr
You said our families would be safe.853Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6Hiu3Uyh3
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?
