It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8Nsh3zGC9
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8eMiG1Z7LR
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7l8dAYTDo
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.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CJrxFQyIr
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2F90KKW3bn
Their friends, too, are condemned.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXVLeqyRJa
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. 937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbanaEz7OIT
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.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaYsFm08iT
Eyes that scream, filth.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkN9SF8koio
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIC1hRj9jXA
You said our families would be safe.937Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PsPrGZPVK
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?
