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Indigo League Challenge, Cerulean City: Rival Battle
Mega Prompts Challenge, writing prompts 5 - over 100 words poem

Tree of Life

They are the tree and the cocoon and they're locked
in this insatiable battle, where they kiss and bite
and drink each other's blood that quickly taints
with the rest of the world.

And then they slumber until they forget the taste
of the rest of the world, and all they recall
is the tang of each other: that sweet darkness,
that salty fairy glitter trail, and the searching roots
and birds eyes search, they search
for each other, to begin anew
the cycle, the battle, the eternal courtship dance
that destroys the land

And they'll continue this cycle of theirs, never-ending
until the cocoon cracks and the tree splinters from the trunk
and neither are reborn again.