Upon the cobbled, winding street,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFGuMDwg9l
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiQUkrgjZJ
A girl named Lila walked alone,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPr7JI30Yn2
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmz2k6mX2m
Until a window called to thee,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRm51M7VWRf
A shop of relics, old and grand,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqzFpj6Cvk
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dd5oqswWy
A painted frame—her soul deceived,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmA5lQ4ylum
For staring back with lifelike grace,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTKEScz9TU
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBBktLhK0o
The painted girl was bathed in light,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGYidQfY9u
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuJ4SfLtCD
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WoCv0ImWd
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9TXM1mezE
With fervor rich, she asked the man,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmey5Fqkj87
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKlOuXMAWR
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKWIaE1v7L
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7CSFVb1QY
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5aOUctOmzu
A whisper deep within her called,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6cbFB19Dq
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3fWCAfcVI
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoFv6nwDCq
In libraries and grand displays,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHBkNshBhw
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjLk41cusZ
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFjp8NDJbg
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygAMgkg2o6
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpTy8TaOar
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzISFvzMzx
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKm4pzH8Mnr
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWr5Ww1tiZY
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRf55q9NnfU
She saw his hands, the ink still there,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXyYkqiaGS
And when he left, too lost in thought,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJjJmZQm90
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gvvGdWWbj
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAQStt5Fas
Then slowly turned the cover wide,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbJB3cv9eb
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDv15vzvCAB
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IF16Ydu3U
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8mErT5dH7
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6urW7LHIZV
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8KLrq6ZbeS
A mystery solved, a question met,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fgzePY0wf
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXBeK7flaB
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Ye6RjFYqK
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiREPIxlmwv
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ67MTjYaaKL
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yenhfwQ4y
“I never meant for you to see,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKM6Fh90ZMd
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxBI4WvcUX
Her heart now whispered his dear name,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYpEllQPVt
The search was done, the artist known,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kjOLL1d4e
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qEAM0puJu
He’d painted her inside his heart,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0foR4Qf3AB
And now at last, her tale complete,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltEioVpQSZ
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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