Prompt: Image of a country road.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xgMZYGNjJ
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOpRtt3EmL
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2i8QDJx8GJ
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrFsphaLIt
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.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqTopP2zxi
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpztpZwj9a4
Their friends, too, are condemned.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwBCwVsyDN
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.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxo6lRPS9IA
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.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsR6Nw4dsJq
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9B4Mb3hc6l
You said our families would be safe.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9DcqzIMBx
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.