Upon the cobbled, winding street,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfGzBEk1Cs
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QJAcwWbn6
A girl named Lila walked alone,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadu2wDubRz
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJykntLoNq
Until a window called to thee,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtfurTQAzMc
A shop of relics, old and grand,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQza8YljVCy
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmQnD56nZq
A painted frame—her soul deceived,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gbrSTZWrc
For staring back with lifelike grace,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqUcF0R4xQ
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxgndvges7
The painted girl was bathed in light,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1d2GS0L7E
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlpeCS7UYv
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjN9TUzJ7tx
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSB99GaN9Gw
With fervor rich, she asked the man,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXWKsjnm26
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpJY4sBR9J
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Wj1dplRq8
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYIbhCxl1C
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjNaijqeBo
A whisper deep within her called,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpqGtgk9pJ
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD15aNQaXAs
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAgjDlzYmP
In libraries and grand displays,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14m2FdkZt3
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMuDO1XLQq
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHBmfO6ilT
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00wfYNHzqv
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTus7Bck2f
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfoUobVyGRl
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRnpQBtEbR
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvdKESPMqQ
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmHdC096cQ
She saw his hands, the ink still there,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZORzcaTGg
And when he left, too lost in thought,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNmRrBGpEY
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvx7YVaU4t
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ769BHoDH1E
Then slowly turned the cover wide,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9idjDytIx
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJL2Ix9krh
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0lwpkb5Ib
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVudSzX6m3s
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhd4ZsJ7TaB
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumgBPMKOnA
A mystery solved, a question met,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZslzVklmU
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZSoEi0xHj
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25OO1LpQGj
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzeyWikhEWJ
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKqtSs2T2O
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6fZcGWCDg
“I never meant for you to see,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJcaTRaI3G
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmElt7WNiE
Her heart now whispered his dear name,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMgVuxWIKq
The search was done, the artist known,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsyV5CZF9p
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXvi4JjfJI
He’d painted her inside his heart,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIKwECsNQn
And now at last, her tale complete,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcS6vsJxMM1
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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