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The sky lantern

Curious hands took delicated folded sky lantern, "Be careful you don't tear or rip me," it said. "Cause I'm the one that gives wings to your hope. I'll embrace the sky's beauty more and make it glow, With my charming warm light, I'll flow. I can banish anxiety and mesmerize those who are sad, I can never be harmful; I can never be bad. Gleeful eyes gazed at the enviable warm light, The poor girl who dreamt about it, But couldn't give her hope and wish such flight. The flame was fading and slowly losing its height, Its pride was falling too, but the sky was still bright. Unknowingly, it landed at that girl's house, Where all her hopes of income were alive. Hay and the stored crops caught fire, Her father cried a lot and the crowd gathered. The girl didn't want to see that thing ever, The harmful lantern burnt with her hopes forever.

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