Prompt: Image of a country road.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTBeZPU1ID
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaV9lbHedMu
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHio8g70U4
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSEkkVrfdU
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.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcyXnREveP7
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYrgy9DXSQ
Their friends, too, are condemned.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmZSqGPf6F
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.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBr9p9lb0h6
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.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNfRwf6ZQu
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwRi69xUJ8
You said our families would be safe.567Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxlESDiSXM
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?
