PART II
INTO THE WOODS CAME THE TWINS,
GRINK AND GRANG WE KNOW.
VINES AND PLANTS GRABBED THEIR SHINS,
AND MADE THEIR JOURNEY SLOW
THE WOOD WAS DEEP AND DARK,
THICK BUSHES AND TREES SO TALL
NO VISIBLE SIGN OR MARK,
NO MOMMA THERE TO CALL.
GRINK WAS STRONG AND BOLD,
HIS PACE WAS ALL TOO QUICK.
TWIN GRANG WAS TIRED AND COLD,
AND STUMBLED ON EVERY STICK
GRINK HAD LEARNED BY NOW,
AND CAREFUL WITH HIS LOVING TWIN,
HELPED HIM AROUND EACH BOUGH,
AND FED HIM, SO HE WOULDN’T BE THIN
THEY STOPPED SO GRANG COULD REST,
AND QUICKLY AS COULD BE,
A BEAST CAME OVER A CREST,
AND HID BEHIND A TREE
HE DROOLED AND LICKED HIS CHOP,
THE TWINS WERE A MEATY FEAST.
FOR DINNER HE CAME TO SHOP,
HE WAS A HUNGRY BEAST!
THE BEAST ATTACKED THE SLEEPING GRANG,
AND GRINK FLEW INTO A RAGE.
FROM A FAR OFF BUSH GRINK SPRANG,
AS IF HE WAS FREED FROM A CAGE!
“YOU WILL NOT EAT MY TWIN”,
GRINK WAS YELLING LOUD!
THE BEAST BEGAN TO GRIN,
BUT GRINK WAS VERY PROUD.
NOW GRANG WAS WIDE AWAKE,
AND RAN TO THE BIG LUNCH PAIL
HE GRABBED SOME CHOCOLATE CAKE,
AND THE THERMOS OF COOL, PURPLE CRAIL
GRANG KNEW HIS TWIN WOULD FIGHT,
AND THOUGHT, “WE’LL FEED THIS BEAST”.
HE HOPED THAT HE WAS RIGHT,
OR ELSE, THEY WOULD BE THE FEAST!
THE BEAST BECAME SO SWEET,
AS HE ATE THE CHOCOLATE CAKE
HE DRANK THE COOL PURPLE TREAT,
AND WAS HAPPY AS AN OOGLE-LATE!
THEY FED HIM MEAT AND BREAD,
THEY FILLED HIM TO THE BRIM.
THEY COMBED HIS HAIRY HEAD,
HE WAS HANDSOME, FULL, AND TRIM.
THE BEAST KNEW MOMMA’S TRAIL!,
GOOD NEWS FROM THEIR NEW FRIEND.
“BRING ALONG THE BIG LUNCH PAIL,
AND I’LL GUIDE YOU AROUND EACH BEND”.
SO, OFF THEY WENT TOGETHER,
ON A BRAND NEW PATH THROUGH THE WOOD
THROUGH STORMS AND SUNNY WEATHER,
TO FIND MOMMA, THEY KNEW THEY COULD!
THEY MADE THE BEAST THEIR BROTHER,
THIS SEEMED TO BE A MUST.
TO FIND THEIR ONLY MOTHER,
THEY’D HAVE TO LEARN TO TRUST.
…to be continued