It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYyaZIYmlL
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9AixnWjlaF
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡig0KIN03jd
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zAKmnDO0J
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEb5SKuYues
Their friends, too, are condemned.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUy3PaYIx96
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. 822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdsngfbkvr
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.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QlVUsMAqk
Eyes that scream, filth.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPKRCjMQK5
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHf3yMTyc8
You said our families would be safe.822Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuZIvygY7Y
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?
