Upon the cobbled, winding street,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgEFNqHsqs
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKNEo1uDpW
A girl named Lila walked alone,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8vydQxuFB
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSGnNiaOQF
Until a window called to thee,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVvaDj6SiE
A shop of relics, old and grand,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHO4AaeLqdL
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyOZtI95Fh
A painted frame—her soul deceived,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gVsz13QSL
For staring back with lifelike grace,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuorKa7nq8E
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZ5ozbCfxQ
The painted girl was bathed in light,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4nYb7Ll2K
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaANkqH3VNW
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4hTZ3Szgc
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIt23Kfa6m9
With fervor rich, she asked the man,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzaXIb1z7L
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgE41I5Qkcw
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQRCtbRD0B
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNjHerlh12
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdlpI7OcFA
A whisper deep within her called,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5vpFOLGvp
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsH5WelXmg0
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoojRrqYD3B
In libraries and grand displays,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WrH2Da9mJ
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrt4l7reim4
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkCxJlqGky
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYupESzDIRN
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTynTTY951
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusW56nDEtk
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyctmpYNI7
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGIBVHtwDv
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm269a30tmO
She saw his hands, the ink still there,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnS4On6oEzC
And when he left, too lost in thought,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyntybuh7F
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0yxFMZHGw
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWeCse2yEi
Then slowly turned the cover wide,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhR0cJDma4A
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwM5WTvkupV
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqapgrGxf0
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZ52SGvLkV
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCUr8CkBEV
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJK4mKQmTOz
A mystery solved, a question met,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3DGXSJ68c
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvl9zb0hgA
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCARgXDYZ2
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOE1FiX5s9E
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHteg0KvXy
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiOvZZQOSe
“I never meant for you to see,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAY3itCzKPj
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhtmGdVWSs
Her heart now whispered his dear name,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Kuqf4UNCR
The search was done, the artist known,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12ZRdXz0Tq
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuy0x1QJRW
He’d painted her inside his heart,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgN84A8AeWZ
And now at last, her tale complete,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYu2SQ3B1F
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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