Prompt: Image of a country road.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQkNZUrB8G
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYltAS5t1bB
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGghhk0t4jp
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SKfLIlpqr
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.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJEKdVTGpo
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLS0KVfbww
Their friends, too, are condemned.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqDD5aFOzc
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.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixph5Py4w2
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.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFVvElSY1e
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcUNOdpUTs
You said our families would be safe.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7xlVopqDq
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?
