It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvassUStza
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5PDU6WXrb
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡda74kRRkAO
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.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88FtrcUYmX
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLggQUOjICj
Their friends, too, are condemned.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrorckzCPfG
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. 1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vVPFFRO0f
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.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWjIoUY8aJ
Eyes that scream, filth.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTkrScymcf
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALe0yvPif6
You said our families would be safe.1133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9L3SXscxw
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?
and then Add to home screen.