It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWPwqd6kD0
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhFPdM2Y7W
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlNOr64GY6
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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzkikcEu8R
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjfJhhhCvL
Their friends, too, are condemned.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfcOc8DXtmO
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. 784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMgPw7dY0o
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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1doKbFDqP
Eyes that scream, filth.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDqTTzDZxy
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKaiKXucvD
You said our families would be safe.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDda0FRO4Ea
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?
