Upon the cobbled, winding street,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVo99jGvOJ0
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBjJnfTWte
A girl named Lila walked alone,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4m3wFcIJTk
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRidgnSWpYT
Until a window called to thee,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpc9IVpgs8W
A shop of relics, old and grand,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYjyAYvsdP
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡht7UgMwnJN
A painted frame—her soul deceived,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqWcLRT4g8
For staring back with lifelike grace,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EbqL0yhx3
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVT4LVSl5f
The painted girl was bathed in light,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRZ1PXJz8H
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJBY2pqhVw
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EgPDmxVRZ
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rzCo04oCS
With fervor rich, she asked the man,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeKNJTENcW
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmU5frFBKj
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1w1OgSYJ7
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzzCZcjhzQ
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfcIvT9fOXN
A whisper deep within her called,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLIdbFTPiM
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQaamt3qaZ
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDF5Ktd5ux
In libraries and grand displays,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡan61td1zIS
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1F1lbKs4b
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT78pNSCVGw
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPrr7aaL9B
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNAanFf2xc
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbb3PXyYH0
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtW5AIX6SZ
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlETPPmzV0t
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6hB5EPLKQ
She saw his hands, the ink still there,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8vvGxMcDS
And when he left, too lost in thought,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8DCCcix5U
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvx8gKUwBP
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJ35ZJU7ay
Then slowly turned the cover wide,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wbmKg5suj
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeHbnrgdI2
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpa0S1aeZ6
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1GGQ9TnCB
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPgZu8QZVE
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrlGVKgJSr
A mystery solved, a question met,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4f6Nz8Z636
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9aYweFMGE
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHnwoKTf7Y
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHglkAqCUA
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MgvfnUxXl
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14PlsVTulS
“I never meant for you to see,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6fzboYmlu
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXc9pmyZ5n
Her heart now whispered his dear name,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHQx8ixC3Y
The search was done, the artist known,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Zab7Jv6cv
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMzV2Nqpzf
He’d painted her inside his heart,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvlhdy5DsH
And now at last, her tale complete,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknmnOlKH6g
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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