A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, f1 - a poetry collection, and for the Digimon Battle Spirit: the Challenge, match 1.2 (Renamon vs. Terriermon). Prompts in this poem: #004 - likeable, #018 - ugliest, #021 - coil, #067 - plant, #080 - annoyed


mache garden
7: working relationship

They clash like oil and water at first
and there's a flint thrown in,
so they keep on catching fire

But there's seeds thrown in as well
and they grow on each other:
stains they can't rub off,
algae that's dug in its roots.

They barely look each other in the eye
even still. They walk their separate paths
and the ones who play peacekeeper
between them still play

But that's all okay
now.