It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOZK4Pstow
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyNddAxRnj
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Fny6Yom7H
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.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6orKCm0WOC
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6Fuer1Fgr
Their friends, too, are condemned.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmATX3rQfv0
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. 752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2rm32MvdQ
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.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLDMQ0vm0u
Eyes that scream, filth.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopR5ArI2qD
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PgFSSTacx
You said our families would be safe.752Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvWaNZejc6
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?
