Upon the cobbled, winding street,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaStnQ8sUl
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpvCQdoBH0
A girl named Lila walked alone,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVO3w6FzakE
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2K3nAR8ti
Until a window called to thee,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfD5dpktR3
A shop of relics, old and grand,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCozpwjFwEN
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8PY13wTRIu
A painted frame—her soul deceived,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCapQaWcTC
For staring back with lifelike grace,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdxQb36ffX
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVkWzwi1dl
The painted girl was bathed in light,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCkLxNFBlW
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1YlQGR3Ft
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzEOfF9rug
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzn39PjeuzS
With fervor rich, she asked the man,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tfbITTpDQ
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRQV69HVb1
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5acPYmuTS
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR13eChDXpt
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmixOmeME7
A whisper deep within her called,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Kq3t9t5Rf
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNi7u8sT5b
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6UFjqSL0P
In libraries and grand displays,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgApdEbHLXm
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePtJxuuU2H
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7HeizgyEQ
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSHbtzyw88
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RDLlginMG
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oUxQ296Ug
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fZtUEBtaa
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB08ELv2ZBZ
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIEoh2meGa
She saw his hands, the ink still there,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9YWNjK29n
And when he left, too lost in thought,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8YhIXbS32
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypMndgJWpB
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0HqbayZiJ
Then slowly turned the cover wide,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qKghlz9w1
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ013lNGRvak
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTe4g1gTET
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYbSIgjNLt
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSbq4fdJRy
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKozcDgfuK
A mystery solved, a question met,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTBRUaS8fh
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMwUxIUjTP
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtusOroSPWk
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyJjmcbl2D
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBwpdP9U4V
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisGRokP49P
“I never meant for you to see,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfV7KBAcTZE
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19N0BCKytT
Her heart now whispered his dear name,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZYiXZGXz8
The search was done, the artist known,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJtBUpAmoz
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8mcvtngk9
He’d painted her inside his heart,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfE5KLPQiW
And now at last, her tale complete,320Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozTaqONJAW
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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