Upon the cobbled, winding street,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7xrV3cL9x
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI04lKODmcV
A girl named Lila walked alone,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMbliTjfpt
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmpHea5vUb
Until a window called to thee,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugzzmFIwrp
A shop of relics, old and grand,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nxrTmstug
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJmydHour7
A painted frame—her soul deceived,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBoe9TnfOS
For staring back with lifelike grace,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXTU9m8YUJ
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVz6roFjFkC
The painted girl was bathed in light,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQ7XB0RvnR
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtpw4Uo4bz
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJ1kRBe8wr
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxz5MYln2D
With fervor rich, she asked the man,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoUOAjJl8h
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0M9iVGGffV
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCuZ0vjePC
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryP0CudY2v
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPu2x36jC2g
A whisper deep within her called,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWbTyDvDfc
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpz6n8mHPBI
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOIhBzpMCK
In libraries and grand displays,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXE2PPebOG
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHLRbFLfc6
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7REr6dWNbx
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfvs9U1K61
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡam9sAsSjOh
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGM7jvQUC0w
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35tw95nZGG
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEeAIPBlNK
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGe5mEBU1Y
She saw his hands, the ink still there,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kUkt16bKN
And when he left, too lost in thought,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3dhyJLdPv
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7olykCTosM
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAIcBBuBdB
Then slowly turned the cover wide,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkg33MrD4wB
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMGKgbKlgJ
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmTf0DhtT5
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW11JBBr6o6
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDLqHuRtKu
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIK40XXmay
A mystery solved, a question met,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TVw05R5I8
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSzRXmmO3y
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQXcL4izub
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5fmN1QwXm
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBwrD3JWuq
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwvX4fNf4D
“I never meant for you to see,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRU6StSN8YI
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2HLRzjOIx7
Her heart now whispered his dear name,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBPNsPGNFz
The search was done, the artist known,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3R68vu9xiH
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrn6lrlKfTp
He’d painted her inside his heart,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZNuUN9fNS
And now at last, her tale complete,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcmrSblJAG
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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