Upon the cobbled, winding street,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJ4fXv3BUY
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasx18DpokU
A girl named Lila walked alone,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXjWDgHKDA
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9Ulbk8fTk
Until a window called to thee,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFvei7tFyui
A shop of relics, old and grand,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPxUSE2SII
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEId4peaVur
A painted frame—her soul deceived,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCcFdF1u9i
For staring back with lifelike grace,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNs1S1yQ5HJ
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44UOLAx8h0
The painted girl was bathed in light,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVNhzv7M3K
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlq6N0pXgDX
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsl6Bplo7K
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcU2UFGzQV
With fervor rich, she asked the man,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpAefltdcl
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQ6nWwYVPm
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡim6QzJzJGe
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu94KXPOhp
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWluHQUuGE4
A whisper deep within her called,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdillLHnmN
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqDm6jZUHP
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPVCdfttC8
In libraries and grand displays,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBXrHrKsOY
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmL491OGocR
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VrsEHGduY
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PgYG0Mygx
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41HA73wWK8
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnMYBza3KQ
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8nmJyzl2x
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZcPEbco61
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpE0kiI1PJ
She saw his hands, the ink still there,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCy7Z8pAFk
And when he left, too lost in thought,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fyiAYTysr
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9JofyTYVS
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fKXQkGM9Z
Then slowly turned the cover wide,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfawjbFLENH
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlgGkLE56t
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQx4npnqlu
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHKflMnQU6
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhDDxlinjP
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1olgUj5qM6
A mystery solved, a question met,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEjxT7JUTq
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs75lTudA5v
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01FwpuHoPA
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡliqRfgGkXt
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMUmsqaaJ7
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpJoQHQONi
“I never meant for you to see,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQr3kRtKiQw
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaMEcJQHJB
Her heart now whispered his dear name,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcztmDSGjO
The search was done, the artist known,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyawR21xOs
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkPvMsWaJb
He’d painted her inside his heart,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIkNS98gTg
And now at last, her tale complete,362Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCwopoZM1q
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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