It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHM1XjDbSl
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxtLMvo8I6
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfWr7To5dV
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.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXwc1iVnXl
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmE3ybnOiE
Their friends, too, are condemned.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuT7ZrmcEjj
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. 907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKcyKhdlJ9
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.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb19CpdMqoO
Eyes that scream, filth.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7XtjlI1zq
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrAATohjhu
You said our families would be safe.907Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrVGb50hoU
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?
