Tears Former

Riddle: I am a black child of a white father. A wingless bird flying even to the clouds of heaven. I cause tears in pupils that meet me and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?

Answer: Smoke.

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I am a black child of a white father. A wingless bird flying even to the clouds of heaven. I cause tears in pupils that meet me and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I? — Tears former by Ebunola v1.

Riddle: I am a black child of a white father. A wingless bird flying even to the clouds of heaven. I cause tears in pupils that meet me and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I? Answer: Smoke. — by Ebunola v2.