Prompt: Image of a country road.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2JyDR2mxA
It's not an easy thing to turn your back on the ones you love.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL04HdMSVoa
They say it's something that cowards do, and they couldn't be more wrong.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXudlnfjvmd
It's an act of courage. To overstep those boundaries of trust, to go against the irrationality of emotion for the greater good.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUW7cmxjNA2
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.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHtHGhMGBW
Some other boys who are joining with me seep slowly out of their houses. Their families, too, are saved.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9cyMP3yqG
Their friends, too, are condemned.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gfE2naw9J
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.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGrFs5YUkS
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.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHLTDh0THd
Eyes that scream, filth.
Down the road, a broken promise awaits.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOE2XttSzdH
You said our families would be safe.975Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7L39PHyTYw
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.