Upon the cobbled, winding street,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eWSbPS5GU
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkPxiAOp0m
A girl named Lila walked alone,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSV7sowFZeo
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiLyPJlvgT6
Until a window called to thee,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeC4KUbOU5j
A shop of relics, old and grand,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf82HJoQh7H
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaHjyV5ZKA
A painted frame—her soul deceived,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvua3faPCh
For staring back with lifelike grace,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEBgQDyhOQ
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXU7fI9fPfd
The painted girl was bathed in light,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlZhhlrmxl
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWX4gTs5bQ
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rKQM8CZE4
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszJM9nPDNS
With fervor rich, she asked the man,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKN5HeRXYM
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LgT4IKHno
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NVAbNpcyY
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbE0rRo5NEi
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJQPSXkM3k
A whisper deep within her called,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bv0AaWuYA
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypfwkQCnJ3
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwL78f99xoa
In libraries and grand displays,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ587Yyk6a7H
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4K1R5P2Nrd
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucmSFgykdU
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDqurTxJ75
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTJ6vQ88jG
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0L742LGG06
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jJSE0l4vM
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVZoCmZzgF
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLG7ev23OYf
She saw his hands, the ink still there,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAH1eiEU18R
And when he left, too lost in thought,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFypcnNUDR
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavr1zeklb0
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0DCiJGV3Mn
Then slowly turned the cover wide,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYcR80ZqHD
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR4vtozUMXX
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1XRqNLsrr3
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPIlXlw7NX
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pB2o9xmjS
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdw4biYwse
A mystery solved, a question met,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkibEREFXug
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqk9i9Tnpq
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsum85Mcnx
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjdkKjRTAb
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYyOa1JKN6
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePHc6G7Lv2
“I never meant for you to see,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZki5tbA9KD
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PRw0TIknX
Her heart now whispered his dear name,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FqPJNayp7
The search was done, the artist known,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMO46alN1f
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNjgpG0j7a
He’d painted her inside his heart,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEERd20GvDD
And now at last, her tale complete,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGD4COwiZ0
Two souls had found where they should meet.
378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQdyJQOLxQ
