Prompt: Image of a country road.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDVk2s2vUS
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9gfBGnNaP
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsj3FC61Yz
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoeNiaiMt4f
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.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaroxdRrsaz
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeLFrzhkMp
Their friends, too, are condemned.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRqb0oF8GB
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.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4elUOtcVjn
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.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEBH7OnSGu
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiT7zWKIhvf
You said our families would be safe.758Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7nwfjSGc2
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?
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