Upon the cobbled, winding street,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOvvJGYU1F
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTtNiyPz50
A girl named Lila walked alone,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGfwXcSyt4
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZC7d8TCCq
Until a window called to thee,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6p1J2EBMs
A shop of relics, old and grand,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdCyFoWm8T
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nkXxTXgf4
A painted frame—her soul deceived,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRU3ZNVrz0
For staring back with lifelike grace,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FlnUfTCrT
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELRoPRjZ9u
The painted girl was bathed in light,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbCF7c7D3M
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKifnk2aGI
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpDKhKX706
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvQshKqIyY
With fervor rich, she asked the man,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBdKsN0jOr
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtd18dBusM
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrYMJgYSDT
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg15WMzcNAT
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55KvcNz0Ls
A whisper deep within her called,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87tDpTucRj
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISOiQiFGHQ
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7Oc3sfoZc
In libraries and grand displays,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbLJmtZQ20
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCCs515tbP
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17R1U1e9yU
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNbSSVdLSf
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uoO22WF11
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCdhqTJUxJ
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡII6EMQFfSo
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRKWLxJRbc
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NM60xuNOQ
She saw his hands, the ink still there,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeW1IK5Xq60
And when he left, too lost in thought,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07cZ9uEWlu
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wpbfhu7yi
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHLQs0Je2o
Then slowly turned the cover wide,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DS5kTa3ei
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToeGkd9ORs
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWTcZaBEKU
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRq77nxFT9l
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0O4I6lCsVP
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkiaQAW216
A mystery solved, a question met,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2n9UWA3dx
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9s2NXIJKlo
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAwF8Q4JM7
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tmJcHcZ8i
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1QAsoeXE8
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2jnpfvtKP
“I never meant for you to see,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwP0FglRje
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqRxtDwXrL
Her heart now whispered his dear name,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsdTOVErxR
The search was done, the artist known,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltbgB0qcC7
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5hYeqVfQET
He’d painted her inside his heart,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHRUIRBGKR
And now at last, her tale complete,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuXrs6KrXe
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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