Upon the cobbled, winding street,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAZiTFaTUC
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAebdQ6AiyI
A girl named Lila walked alone,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmRstwOCts
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxzasRbCDo
Until a window called to thee,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMt5PgCeRzN
A shop of relics, old and grand,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6V15rJS51M
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IugpWP5Jm
A painted frame—her soul deceived,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugCzBm6vVS
For staring back with lifelike grace,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6thVDRo24
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWdUJjCuCE
The painted girl was bathed in light,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcjkmZYu89
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnIuihBjgz
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyp7HVCZajX
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcaqVRyUfn
With fervor rich, she asked the man,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIOOYEzofg
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrDx1ZNA9V
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBC7NmPaQm
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDbshLCTQb
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfncahlfUKi
A whisper deep within her called,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsdJQMQbP1
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Q9hyfcvEG
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUdIfcyyWm
In libraries and grand displays,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5wbonjRXO
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVMKjYxKdk
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJLPfxphbW
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7twbLN4WU3
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlzK3txtZT4
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2deknUo4D
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EjIHSRAnc
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gLkKucAew
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLdRL66ryw
She saw his hands, the ink still there,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYUS7uRdjz
And when he left, too lost in thought,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdlYNQtKLh
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoeE7Lh2Qz
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmtg3aBMOM
Then slowly turned the cover wide,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroxgFVuzpx
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwThmKGeTDX
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQW5F0f6YJ
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLDzbsjJPL
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWTM2FMdSv
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdKmMUO99w
A mystery solved, a question met,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIVfU0gAAL
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBo4EA6cx37
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPyqdgC08J
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFTuMKVnyb
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0clkp1mb8
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyANKG6pSr
“I never meant for you to see,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5SIqHSSSU
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUO9FziBodT
Her heart now whispered his dear name,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXxGDtWiBr
The search was done, the artist known,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7VSe8IhFZ
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtSo4A8114
He’d painted her inside his heart,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKV9BQHByD
And now at last, her tale complete,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2zr07CR8x
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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