Upon the cobbled, winding street,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsgE0795NO
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QLrjDJdbT
A girl named Lila walked alone,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFyivXyV2V
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0yLnGTqYB
Until a window called to thee,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwTExyA1V5
A shop of relics, old and grand,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJGVGHNmE6
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUZr3NG367
A painted frame—her soul deceived,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrfMPg8pjs
For staring back with lifelike grace,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIY8SHdHmBm
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwn901xjz5e
The painted girl was bathed in light,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVrYkt4MyA
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGM0fMrXsa
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9yNyoVp58
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBpvV1auAO
With fervor rich, she asked the man,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gNXe008kP
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8AurJy84o
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYr2Cz8i2b
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5EAiuDwdA
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxRYSALvZw
A whisper deep within her called,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiBSOWIPpo
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CtozZmqFL
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjqmVmFmph
In libraries and grand displays,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjMdt4uRza
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9YZZIhjnr
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOocgdG034
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCtdIZqt48
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUhnF1cFVg
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgnf9DoVqf
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4tQnvW1K6
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutaNi42Kiu
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWWEi8DcFZ
She saw his hands, the ink still there,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusyk7wXo5v
And when he left, too lost in thought,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rEPuskidZ
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVEyxSqSkd
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhk7vZTh5w
Then slowly turned the cover wide,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnIoIkXsAE
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLHcdgRbnL
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnz8yQPKb2
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmg85sDdD5
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA57aP5xodl
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIvbGMMDVf
A mystery solved, a question met,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yJJ7FWO2f
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WcdiuPTbc
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKpePUg2VT
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHEWnFenIs
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6luuj6ExA
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaG92xtzsjV
“I never meant for you to see,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6aY4kxHZ3q
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfvxaWynAD
Her heart now whispered his dear name,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBZjGYWFTv
The search was done, the artist known,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wTKhVSbwZ
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbZ2XNik8P
He’d painted her inside his heart,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcwi6Pf0R4
And now at last, her tale complete,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGplrFg7no
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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