A/N: Written for the Prompts in Steps Challenge on the Digimon Fanfiction Challenges Forum (link in profile), step 1 – prompt 7: bloodshed.
The Bloody River From Spiral Mountain
Tears of blood weren't going to stop filling
the riverbank, dried by drought, that inactive life
that hid in the tall weeds
because that was the only sanctuary they could find.
Their world wasn't theirs anymore: changed,
into that spiralling mountain that disappeared
into the dark clouds above; where they lived was only
the fragments left behind, the collecting ground
for the trash, where only weeds could grow…
He could live off weeds and trash, because he was a rat
but he couldn't stand the bloody river running past:
the only ones that could were the demons
that stood beyond the clouds.