Prompt: Image of a country road.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyWL5j2aKf
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iAV23CquV
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVs4geevGR
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZGawmWk3p
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.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Ow4azYxgY
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEB4j2gCLc
Their friends, too, are condemned.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYFdabmn12
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.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPjuxkdWZD
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.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡak6yDfc9hp
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAxkc76Jfl
You said our families would be safe.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nlMPCgvWr
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?
