A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, d2 - poetry collection with an overarching theme, and for the Digimon Battle Spirit: the Challenge, match 1.3 (Renamon vs. Terriermon). Prompts in this poem: #001 - sort, #002 - harm, #032 - scratch

Surviving War
1: bleeding heart

They were different
and for that, they had to fight
a war? It wasn't fair.

It wasn't fair
but that was the way things were
after all.

They tried to understand each other.
They failed.

Or perhaps they'd been set up
to fail.

After all, forgiveness was a hard thing
to find, when the heart still bled
and on the field of war,
the heart always bled.