Upon the cobbled, winding street,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeLe9WcoUx
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgELBT4RJIB
A girl named Lila walked alone,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdnmi1pTbm
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAga501Z90x
Until a window called to thee,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgonrTRqXaj
A shop of relics, old and grand,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjEolJBMQU
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xL4ysqBAX
A painted frame—her soul deceived,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPFr7LRBLO
For staring back with lifelike grace,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKAkzZSaNHl
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YuOcBhiPo
The painted girl was bathed in light,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEkVV0mFUa
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3sY9kzuXC
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTY4YaK9YX
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepMQjqtWIy
With fervor rich, she asked the man,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQkYaJ38rq
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSkQZFFj4Y
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUkLTWkWJ2
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5hETwy2FGl
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIDpcfD7lW
A whisper deep within her called,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrz9xvnVpKE
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJbX3KnIR7
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbyKVPb9Op
In libraries and grand displays,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9UO0l8BZZ
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexf0xKjwh2
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56QgyJZENw
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkdPUXJ4Gh
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsyZliQhTlM
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgT8QIvDRMQ
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsNYV1vafn
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyYZ3hRZ7f
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFYmygWdS3
She saw his hands, the ink still there,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32ZfGlIAfW
And when he left, too lost in thought,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MpzlBS9DV
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlhVlliZwz
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4c0xdHMD6p
Then slowly turned the cover wide,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kaoU41rq5
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvDgodBihO
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6ApXvWrkF
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXPba7AEJh
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8IGcptPEV
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ykPPn8GIR
A mystery solved, a question met,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUElOLijA2
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVqpCiLEq5J
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFa4bWJT5kg
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8pvzfUP3p
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDeh7oJLk8
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBFFmrDSGY
“I never meant for you to see,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMLTQdrS3y
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIA4VoFv9xv
Her heart now whispered his dear name,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW36G5lVLuB
The search was done, the artist known,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBbUFaKmsU
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAIaDiFmCR
He’d painted her inside his heart,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qFRMgYhh5
And now at last, her tale complete,263Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAxYyauHS6
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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