When Gila Becomes a Monster

Gila didn't know he was a Monster.
So quiet, slow ... silent.

The sun,
Oh the sun
So warm and pleasing.

He loved the sun.

"And no one can take my sun!"

"I dare someone to take my sun,
Not my sun,
It's my sun,
It's mine!"

And that was all he knew.

The water quenched him.
And the air energized him.
And the smaller lizards helped keep the madness away.

His sun kept him happy.

So dependable.
So bright.
So warm and tingly inside.
He loved the sun.


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When another gila came along,
He had no idea what to do.

So lazy and sleepy,
He opened his eyes.
In the distance the sun was on its way.

His excitement to know,
That the night was now over,
To help hide his secrets away.

Now an intruder! 
Come to soak up his sun,
All puffy and mad as can be!

Gila grew twice his size,
With a low hiss, a stampede 
"No one steals my precious sun from me!"