Upon the cobbled, winding street,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4QxDNfKqW
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEGvtOZ0MY
A girl named Lila walked alone,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6mIQq4s53
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZokxKgHgru
Until a window called to thee,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RL8fCrmoB
A shop of relics, old and grand,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwV2fvNHso
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtGv2sIPSa
A painted frame—her soul deceived,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUqQpIz6Gk
For staring back with lifelike grace,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalP64CVl2c
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7GJoxt9FF
The painted girl was bathed in light,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpXv5IyiGC
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytTy9uiHTY
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLUWPqdEZw
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuPfgrV9Ni
With fervor rich, she asked the man,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMHSpymu7b
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzQGZiUoWl
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfmw150Izp
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0oNng0mEyp
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVxFeeQ5u4
A whisper deep within her called,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xWLx5flkD
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHd3rw40n5
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeeUO2QHm0
In libraries and grand displays,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2BhrMSkix
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPpWmPewJl
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EeLyLr6pK
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvGnY2U9Wf
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsD0HtEUqG
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMvGFFQuaY
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xbl5CYT0F
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0ByJFjKJn
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRM9w6pHH8v
She saw his hands, the ink still there,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvi2rHIqoh
And when he left, too lost in thought,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIMTI3SBnP
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXMcxb9r6T
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqYv2vex6I
Then slowly turned the cover wide,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUayFDIlOg
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbC0Zoy9Vk3
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6JxYPvSg6
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZs9sqRZph
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PXG7FtfXk
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2mYXefkHx
A mystery solved, a question met,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCvEVkIAZa
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TpvkDLfqR
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKccpxu7I5
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMO4kEvhU6
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlHaVcKq1x
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr00uDo91QB
“I never meant for you to see,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dZM9BG00h
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfoMXtPfes
Her heart now whispered his dear name,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RXQAIQ7DW
The search was done, the artist known,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBMciK4kt3
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUj2AM1Glu1
He’d painted her inside his heart,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfn75Uya81c
And now at last, her tale complete,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNRm7OFC1f
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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