Chocolate and Panda

Panda lived in the zoo,
Cute animal with circles around eyes.
Panda was very fond of Chocolate,
She ate it from morning to evening.

Every time children came to the zoo,
Panda asked them for Chocolate.
Kids gave her various treats,
And joy on her face knew no bounds.




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But one day another boy came to the zoo,
Which looked very strange.
Panda, as usual, asked for Chocolate,
But strange boy laughed and walked away.

Panda was very upset,
She thought she would never get Chocolate again.
But suddenly she saw large box,
In which she found a lot of Chocolate candies.

Panda did not know how this box
Ended up in the enclosure,
But here's what was most amazing:
No matter how many candies Panda got,
Box was still full of candies.

Panda began to look at Chocolate in different way.
First, now she ate candies very rarely,
Because she wasn't so interested.
Secondly, she no longer asked for Chocolate from kids.

The years passed, Panda became proud,
She learned to ignore children and passers-by,
She stopped eating Chocolate completely,
And she guessed where the magic box came from,
It was put under by that strange boy who silently laughed.

At first, Panda was grateful to that little sorcerer
For an endless stream of Chocolate from box,
But over time, she realized that it was not gift,
It was curse, and now Panda has run out of desires.

For a while she hoped she would become Buddhist,
But this desire also did not come true.
She became just old lonely sad Panda,
On which devil played such cruel joke.




The original text was written by me in Russian. I haven't studied English systematically, so translation may not be ideal. The main work was done by Google Translate, I just corrected obvious absurdities, where I noticed them and where I did not confuse them with brilliant insights.