It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqG19ME2t1T
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1a8uDGruIu
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcPDIG4m3m
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.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmsLuCaP6Z
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC26FjS6sSl
Their friends, too, are condemned.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVWBuAb40I
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. 744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmmrGlgQss
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.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaiMbmwqV9
Eyes that scream, filth.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyX3tmczWAo
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUUwX9VyGn
You said our families would be safe.744Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoW8nFXOWc
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?
