Prompt: Image of a country road.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAhONgX2YS
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYCKMPYu3G
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2a2M0Z2Lap
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPbSKJWe2E
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.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhijodBD8P2
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfQej76wEo
Their friends, too, are condemned.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tpaZbhxnm
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.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiIThdiDPCV
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.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzzxH0wNYR
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlsmgdvwSP
You said our families would be safe.643Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3iOn1XAufe
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?
