Upon the cobbled, winding street,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXL5MRkReDt
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRp3zQNkGQ
A girl named Lila walked alone,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLE4ulYCDvV
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYuTDLfp4X
Until a window called to thee,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtsjbqZns0
A shop of relics, old and grand,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuB8Lo7eb9
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1OX13X6o8
A painted frame—her soul deceived,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5Rv7xoBZl
For staring back with lifelike grace,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTdRLqBRmE
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKbIgyDnE9
The painted girl was bathed in light,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQKsP2ri1r
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5GPP4dilt
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFS6WIoBIY
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9d1ZqtFcv
With fervor rich, she asked the man,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCP5F7Qy55i
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagCphCJf8k
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbU03mDGOHO
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mU2D49ipp
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkrk3EEGvz
A whisper deep within her called,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjbzUYRdV2
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19AkAbfX7j
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjC7lPsYrWa
In libraries and grand displays,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmM1d4Z0F2E
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpLz400Ba9
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOiTZmHPaSx
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFIT1Tmb9t
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipLfvOOI0q
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyk1BfMR9sC
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Zmn6AsLZB
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2ZpdVEG17
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswf6lBWJy3
She saw his hands, the ink still there,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKAFknrfIG
And when he left, too lost in thought,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kS3kv5T80
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWwY5U4ZXc
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvELYWmG7N
Then slowly turned the cover wide,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRABti5wlQx
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYbMZ6m27R
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BgJ3zK0HI
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IaipSJL8q
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIB7zIysrs
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUmjtow8Et
A mystery solved, a question met,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61Fv1TReWW
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoK2JKrxmW
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBZRx4JUz0
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vZq9Hv3qB
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWiNCg1gOl
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulfr9jaIGT
“I never meant for you to see,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFTcsEb4p9
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupHa4UtHSC
Her heart now whispered his dear name,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR40KbcyRtO
The search was done, the artist known,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvwRJ30Hkb
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyglk0Flbe
He’d painted her inside his heart,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKUQi7BurO
And now at last, her tale complete,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuPAgTqR0K
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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