Prompt: Image of a country road.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBGLkJgNy3
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeO1PcP0eKh
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXPhkjNQzH
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHa34uPpx2B
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.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmIHfqqHa6
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCF7boQTPCJ
Their friends, too, are condemned.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFinII5mgQK
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.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMEpESMUai
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.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lFY5bsVSr
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCFwajFqAX
You said our families would be safe.598Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoqdvJMM4e
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?
