Upon the cobbled, winding street,350Please respect copyright.PENANA0AyswJ9CL9
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,350Please respect copyright.PENANAcEKm7VV2cF
A girl named Lila walked alone,350Please respect copyright.PENANAoSAlXOOeR7
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,350Please respect copyright.PENANAU2Ej0hny9Y
Until a window called to thee,350Please respect copyright.PENANAySEXtlz6P6
A shop of relics, old and grand,350Please respect copyright.PENANAb1iL1ljm2i
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,350Please respect copyright.PENANAxwaReLWW1g
A painted frame—her soul deceived,350Please respect copyright.PENANAbBXwtazCHB
For staring back with lifelike grace,350Please respect copyright.PENANAxWTIar2idx
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,350Please respect copyright.PENANA1YsSmrnbF3
The painted girl was bathed in light,350Please respect copyright.PENANA85c6mGYTJy
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,350Please respect copyright.PENANAwJVwrU1qjb
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?350Please respect copyright.PENANAMrqtXGtwPp
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?350Please respect copyright.PENANABpf8LnsZMV
With fervor rich, she asked the man,350Please respect copyright.PENANA5xzQvAJ5Rp
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,350Please respect copyright.PENANALmmLaSFHFi
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,350Please respect copyright.PENANAvUWMDCzbIK
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,350Please respect copyright.PENANAvWTlmskMpC
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,350Please respect copyright.PENANA1WXZhf1ZmW
A whisper deep within her called,350Please respect copyright.PENANAG6sHSP6Qkj
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,350Please respect copyright.PENANA001FpISroz
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,350Please respect copyright.PENANACgkVFeuoBP
In libraries and grand displays,350Please respect copyright.PENANAbnEZLvR1a0
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,350Please respect copyright.PENANAJ90yxKLdCS
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,350Please respect copyright.PENANAw5Z48ncCSz
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,350Please respect copyright.PENANAhht9rSe1a0
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,350Please respect copyright.PENANAgfBNFZg4Dm
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,350Please respect copyright.PENANA3blcl85wNz
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,350Please respect copyright.PENANAVI7x53wVna
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,350Please respect copyright.PENANAFb9Yi5dkPI
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,350Please respect copyright.PENANAmXwnoUclb5
She saw his hands, the ink still there,350Please respect copyright.PENANAgTBKNjx5S5
And when he left, too lost in thought,350Please respect copyright.PENANAObJtAHi8LF
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,350Please respect copyright.PENANATO9eenfYR9
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,350Please respect copyright.PENANA1DAbHoXwM8
Then slowly turned the cover wide,350Please respect copyright.PENANAm8hBkQSb6z
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,350Please respect copyright.PENANAa2h62ustdu
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,350Please respect copyright.PENANAf81bFT3D1m
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,350Please respect copyright.PENANAqw11qFSKAy
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,350Please respect copyright.PENANAOn6Edaii9O
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,350Please respect copyright.PENANA1TXBEyWwPC
A mystery solved, a question met,350Please respect copyright.PENANAMFX5uSP0kt
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,350Please respect copyright.PENANAxitWvYz8hu
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,350Please respect copyright.PENANA6Fd1E3eVcc
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,350Please respect copyright.PENANAOkeZbyj3CC
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,350Please respect copyright.PENANA6MoZ9nxFz8
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,350Please respect copyright.PENANALkJnpPWtPF
“I never meant for you to see,350Please respect copyright.PENANAbtzqgurRvK
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,350Please respect copyright.PENANAKepLXepp1R
Her heart now whispered his dear name,350Please respect copyright.PENANAzXQe7euriu
The search was done, the artist known,350Please respect copyright.PENANATruzeALv69
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,350Please respect copyright.PENANAEKnCLXl4Ds
He’d painted her inside his heart,350Please respect copyright.PENANAfOvxy9TQgq
And now at last, her tale complete,350Please respect copyright.PENANA2sdyXnLus1
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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