Upon the cobbled, winding street,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiWdgHSqu6
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOF2XOlSGwh
A girl named Lila walked alone,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QH0M9uJ9C
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCro9CeYt0M
Until a window called to thee,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKxoWzNz48
A shop of relics, old and grand,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6jKpWt51t
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucrqfSJLBp
A painted frame—her soul deceived,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnCllEvEV7
For staring back with lifelike grace,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHKZ5RPL8x
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfnIn9nn8d
The painted girl was bathed in light,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxu9EcFCmL1
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnerxrXn0h
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvv5hgpQoFp
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rU7J4Uqee
With fervor rich, she asked the man,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkIqPCb0JO5
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRbMmtIwbL
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zrDr9Ztrc
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcToINwHqk
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvca4Nx6dS
A whisper deep within her called,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTrB3oD0j3
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaAh5FXxPh
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mtO28b6IM
In libraries and grand displays,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzb0F2PuMH
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4Jwu4S4RM
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEX7eLCHxV
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufrnk9p1FH
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7Fs608Mh4
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLbVoXVTBy
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRNl5q1CJS
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyBSJvts6c
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVODhbqsB7T
She saw his hands, the ink still there,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpAuPA82c0
And when he left, too lost in thought,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRn2H0Domi
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zliBehGWx
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2eedsSX8iw
Then slowly turned the cover wide,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNDVvAKjr8
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgVbKZtv4T
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjO1OS963l0
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgz7oQUCZR4
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgWHUSMM4z
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MgpHoSsJl
A mystery solved, a question met,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3tsMvoMEc
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX48VyH3sNw
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoelCT40HCo
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvMiohD75K
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNg14FJ0nO
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizV3ZEI8JI
“I never meant for you to see,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRjTUm9em5
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFAXTF9UW0
Her heart now whispered his dear name,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElLIkdHpzO
The search was done, the artist known,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyzl0CjREx
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSNlQoVh8F
He’d painted her inside his heart,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmuE5gwPlPX
And now at last, her tale complete,236Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsSwUwYSbI
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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