Upon the cobbled, winding street,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9dkPqFD8s
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHYjVAXZPk
A girl named Lila walked alone,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21WFz7wuec
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIHdOiS8Cm
Until a window called to thee,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyqvBZSsq4
A shop of relics, old and grand,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfPgNLER5n
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81xKNBiAXm
A painted frame—her soul deceived,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLT9lCr9U4J
For staring back with lifelike grace,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaM3RdxMWP
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6fGTZaPsx
The painted girl was bathed in light,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIalvoh4mqx
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ871E8uSqi7
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpfeQyqQUA
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYJbS0cw3z
With fervor rich, she asked the man,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnR11wJG6nn
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9ZWiarHfN
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlqiBKTwXo
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvXMcyrnxd
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2b2o6OxWZ
A whisper deep within her called,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24bt7PLw3P
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zOQv4tre8
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoslwnCK6gt
In libraries and grand displays,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3vEv5khmN
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfMfEBAYTj
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQcfaTldha
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6CXmWN9eN
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwu3pvttrO5
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9xJobYoxZ
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpz0CCcpBWQ
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVuObuWNDq7
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAk7TkqP3g
She saw his hands, the ink still there,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9RYNnupih
And when he left, too lost in thought,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY96yJwTSc8
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aUSr9rZNf
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6UnNuTzXA
Then slowly turned the cover wide,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsuyCl6rBc
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPK0eGt8hq
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUCE7iLuhm
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLx78gFnaj
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnJ8yCoBnH
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt265BuvyX6
A mystery solved, a question met,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTr2HiXWXGN
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmqEiOz3YL
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYX8mSGjw2
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzS0wDk5jMk
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHXqyT58pI
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXYfzBtzf7
“I never meant for you to see,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0JC4badSx
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmWu6d0epg
Her heart now whispered his dear name,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnZPIXytPu
The search was done, the artist known,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNP8j631SN
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoh9P3Zllqr
He’d painted her inside his heart,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdWVoMx24u
And now at last, her tale complete,280Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsM4K0Vw0n0
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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