Prompt: Image of a country road.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0vfkondct
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCK25dGN7Us
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vPamdqxtQ
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmGly9K7XQ
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.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKoWY6unC6
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmFPEGTFep
Their friends, too, are condemned.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrWrQRRo16
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.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdMDDoxw2k
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.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNojUEHDobQ
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMXrbD6CPj
You said our families would be safe.695Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYs5fA5Vbn
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?
