Prompt: Image of a country road.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8OceLFc4Y
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzn4j8yahoV
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1vNn8d0BK
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSyGawmvwE
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.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnncYgR6DqV
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhB2JQqwO2a
Their friends, too, are condemned.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnYkbj6GZM
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.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DxnIEraBk
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.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ka9yOgogw
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQm2vVsCFJ5
You said our families would be safe.941Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGmOh6HDK7
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.