Upon the cobbled, winding street,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUPlnKjk1Y
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOShRMtOsl
A girl named Lila walked alone,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNcQi6iUex
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLY5PTDS8Gs
Until a window called to thee,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1T3xgeiWm
A shop of relics, old and grand,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFl1KmSCZZ
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VrN5x8tzu
A painted frame—her soul deceived,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdgnyCT5Lx
For staring back with lifelike grace,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbPsVlbO65
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCAugZaZzt
The painted girl was bathed in light,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqV1jzCX8Y
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwumx9ucX3m
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdBZfMPquR
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3qg4dyH4Z
With fervor rich, she asked the man,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOy18UJBdg
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwYsBqQHIq
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tZc8BoeX3
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhLvmPMvla
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1ZJhp5C2V
A whisper deep within her called,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRTU4HpHSU
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0R04OjlOsQ
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIVfKn3joN
In libraries and grand displays,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6ePdUwR9F
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnT4mlYtNmW
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjGdypYyv1
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaYUHfMvk2
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKatX9XBO5
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhKgrEHWnw
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvzMK4HsyQ
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMD0xSjLMG
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JLowleg5w
She saw his hands, the ink still there,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxK5n3OAf8k
And when he left, too lost in thought,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNmSxW0j8G
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxw6Xuxkt3
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHKJx1kEcz
Then slowly turned the cover wide,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIYYY63RyX
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xtKKXr3Ir
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRz4apqYTMa
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhym5cR18n
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4Zetne97m
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLQQBOQWzx
A mystery solved, a question met,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVWTZjjo2F
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IZnzRvoAt
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRWlirixMx
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoz9mq9VxR
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSjWY3f3Vf
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKATQISb6pK
“I never meant for you to see,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuh5KS0swe
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbViXpZyEaI
Her heart now whispered his dear name,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLHDznq8Cy
The search was done, the artist known,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMFGxSuMI8
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKSKnZujFp
He’d painted her inside his heart,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEjKcIcYbR
And now at last, her tale complete,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVVypTRsDv
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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