Upon the cobbled, winding street,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCw2VAvv0yl
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNh9lfyiyW
A girl named Lila walked alone,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUnNcjlFo7
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqSkhwTKKc
Until a window called to thee,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNPDhBbXdp
A shop of relics, old and grand,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBut4cTaPMW
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbAIUdz6nz
A painted frame—her soul deceived,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsUuwrlrce
For staring back with lifelike grace,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4g8ZZ6m1Z
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILuMrKzVOH
The painted girl was bathed in light,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLXjUDcfvF
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GujhZx9He
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkPHNz6IaF
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvwloKab2Q
With fervor rich, she asked the man,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWQiDwYfVh
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3yD1BlBt6
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Ww75NVInW
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9VMwBlCdNE
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7G3V4c5wfK
A whisper deep within her called,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNA9sdgyU7
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo29yMs1uUU
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsNyTBJiAZ
In libraries and grand displays,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2i0RArqiY
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXieBM9Xva
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnvEOXhyWQ
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI05ZA8gprY
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2fuTxw1AH
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJ6rcxOPP7
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwb1pFMgeA
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8DNCJZO9t
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv392NDRNIZ
She saw his hands, the ink still there,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsED9bxpanU
And when he left, too lost in thought,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vXC5cqcHa
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhWLaoGYFO
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTT8OrZdaCj
Then slowly turned the cover wide,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UtdHt1wen
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaV9zFRkJ7v
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhtQ7FWI5G
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9W1ho4BFP
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMotxRKIJhE
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQMp9Edkzn
A mystery solved, a question met,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmSV3lceQU
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtd7lLsT4o
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjI6UN2Hdfv
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRuA0gGzak
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViceiRjyxf
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCB001EADt
“I never meant for you to see,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0snQIuvDHU
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4mYpUZSaQ
Her heart now whispered his dear name,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALOWMiBOUS
The search was done, the artist known,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6pCWgv2Aa
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmz94dNp0Qd
He’d painted her inside his heart,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHt0rdv7gMT
And now at last, her tale complete,264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYviF1l1XI
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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