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: #019 - attend, #042 - library, #055 - auspicious, #062 - home, #066 - star.
mache garden
10: duty
They all have their dreams but they get brushed
aside by the war, by the call to arms, and their
fingers wrap around swords and blasters
instead of wires and piano keys…
There's no couch on the library to curl up on
with a book, or a garden-seat with the sweet-
smelling flowers gathered round, or the kitchen
table with the spices in the air and on their tongues…
There's not even time for a good luck charm:
that rabbit paw or star in the sky
or carved bit of wood or woven
bracelets that wait for them at home.