Upon the cobbled, winding street,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdxI7qV71k
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQaOjoT2Y4S
A girl named Lila walked alone,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWIWn19sND
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIKyYXGuVT
Until a window called to thee,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZ5evzUxNT
A shop of relics, old and grand,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkQmuf2dXk
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBcHPIMWNn
A painted frame—her soul deceived,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPowq4cHMo
For staring back with lifelike grace,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTH9XyMphCx
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Y6f7a4GmJ
The painted girl was bathed in light,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNxE9etQjf
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEkD5mb3ix
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJiTCslQ0D4
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xJy3KNc9N
With fervor rich, she asked the man,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKPtbelGWF
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPEODCLHkv
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHuZ97rMs6
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGVtiWFJTU2
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LzqhhP0Ri
A whisper deep within her called,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTy0AcA0E43
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3k9iJBIHiy
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuQxlymi1K
In libraries and grand displays,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhsRIEHamu
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDn9oUSoSO8
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZeOAPy8wp
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54XRXIoxWp
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhBNxGIwLs
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVn1X3AbSRK
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfseYaedFSV
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWilEP0UfLJ
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLVKoo1Gma
She saw his hands, the ink still there,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmJAOY2ZHf
And when he left, too lost in thought,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9JUy0WMlao
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNc355XGYfR
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRdmKTaVe5
Then slowly turned the cover wide,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFrifuFFCU
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QuE0dKY1d
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIU1O8KoiGH
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPrQvV2drb
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgNfITan1L
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXl6CYzFPI
A mystery solved, a question met,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsWkTS4j1H
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4TvOnaFk4
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBITG9TpZNI
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQV3odClZH
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHplW5A5a2j
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY5l6HSyKLU
“I never meant for you to see,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKBavRV9ID
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlene8ZGpe
Her heart now whispered his dear name,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCMs8slkdk
The search was done, the artist known,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9I6s5HjLdB
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyygEwnXnQ
He’d painted her inside his heart,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJ2FVa7fj9
And now at last, her tale complete,278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcj1AI89ted
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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