Upon the cobbled, winding street,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlPR9CnR85
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSHGyOa5YU
A girl named Lila walked alone,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bFVH6Muw7
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ul3T6WMd1
Until a window called to thee,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnP6C8MDOK
A shop of relics, old and grand,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenKCG6zmnb
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxPH9WBMnQ
A painted frame—her soul deceived,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIufCt2JrI
For staring back with lifelike grace,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡME80rcPRLE
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdB9lSWWDm3
The painted girl was bathed in light,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMAHIooXEY
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxzO6oyVbK
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1FWxClTjJ
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7tGLB6UBW
With fervor rich, she asked the man,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqFVPRAF5L
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoi6pjTKcEz
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQRk2L8Vo5
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡED8cffLWum
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vBwuOgdPe
A whisper deep within her called,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGut8PrAkj
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYBXsPPnmi
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnFc1vEl7R
In libraries and grand displays,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NMBVM1sX3
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyjycpr6aA
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3KTiqpRiI
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2dsyX1DKD
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCON3dGt2E
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAVkzCE8lN
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3giGOdiSa
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIncEdo59OP
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UWezuqLVE
She saw his hands, the ink still there,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsC0ARR9MJL
And when he left, too lost in thought,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhuSWQDtuC
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOccb742v24
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAg2jmk20Zj
Then slowly turned the cover wide,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEDEBzY3VA
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDfu03EN0F
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8z9eSG15no
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKTQ3jHUXk
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVWFqAjvOs
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3O3NqBikK
A mystery solved, a question met,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1s8khi0dJ7
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFn39q69S7s
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ci7bYu1kz
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcEy7ckmwx
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TSovS8HEw
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bDtoNeeSG
“I never meant for you to see,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHWVmumSHU
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVUSjj0Lar
Her heart now whispered his dear name,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLss9L8By6n
The search was done, the artist known,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AW3MV8dEw
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPHZWOwMWe
He’d painted her inside his heart,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhS7R0q3MoL
And now at last, her tale complete,244Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoD6ywJpc5
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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