Upon the cobbled, winding street,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGuVpbyDdl
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHssUuBAlQ9
A girl named Lila walked alone,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxFbDIMTUy
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPYKptgFFb
Until a window called to thee,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SqEGgeYJl
A shop of relics, old and grand,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTFxIMN24s
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadlwW58Hia
A painted frame—her soul deceived,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCP2vieG8I
For staring back with lifelike grace,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JD8eguzc0
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fQYjip9BG
The painted girl was bathed in light,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPuNN6eZxm3
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2rJUF8br3
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRFfBII7KV
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS45aDSbCkQ
With fervor rich, she asked the man,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fufGV1UCH
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR95hv5xxkw
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3goUSN9uL
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqoA4sii1q
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHE2CT9vt0f
A whisper deep within her called,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4esgwK7aS2
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKrLrStQcE
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbQM7XifsK
In libraries and grand displays,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yS4YCN5Jn
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmppsTw07oE
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCGFDuPHAE
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCmYPzAkfN
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Ipg6M9Kfp
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMDDLR4FAf
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBanHIFcXJ
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKc8Ds4W94
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgQBeaf9nW
She saw his hands, the ink still there,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSJ0BQZlbC
And when he left, too lost in thought,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ43HsvfemRX
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcMbbnPslK
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnwxpYEOX3
Then slowly turned the cover wide,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oewy02EzP
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgvrIHqesj
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGHC82S0wC
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9dCOsAeED
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZ4ZCmv4Ua
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BqWeGCEBU
A mystery solved, a question met,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRh8CGgkUcB
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKWLF1RoXe
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqXpLWo3QJ
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohgJcmHMo9
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1mzGmvRam
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfo1Xh1ZYR
“I never meant for you to see,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKwQ5XzYNY
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgfHmUzMM8
Her heart now whispered his dear name,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXw2uujs5X
The search was done, the artist known,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmN06LRSypr
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6oYVgnpvE
He’d painted her inside his heart,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zAputxAhD
And now at last, her tale complete,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lH97Vrx5A
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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