Prompt: Image of a country road.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5H4gb71ygZ
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWswMWSv2e
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27Vh3ixsZE
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCk8UzOjIA
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.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkIzwW3nxY
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AvpfFHeGx
Their friends, too, are condemned.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsuxTuZdxC
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.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBKDcui7po
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.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70ZnivpIIt
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡak7ORMARnA
You said our families would be safe.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZeloovU4n
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?
