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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