Prompt: Image of a country road.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVtUigmJGM
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenFgOuEJTB
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecw9t49yIg
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESZZLQ8CaG
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTRdrRdp4E
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlz2dwc9KV4
Their friends, too, are condemned.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoeYdJgCOWF
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEJlfpHybU
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡribInuED3A
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXUHSNk6aZ
You said our families would be safe.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqraDWmvYa
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?
