Upon the cobbled, winding street,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmXRk9h0Q2
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNs6pQN4GR2
A girl named Lila walked alone,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcCJpCB6Vk
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtcH17KG5g
Until a window called to thee,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxKMzNOByh
A shop of relics, old and grand,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0Pl0X4r33
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmMSwQ9QwP
A painted frame—her soul deceived,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUG8O3wavj
For staring back with lifelike grace,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63jyHFIp8P
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqELxKycpk
The painted girl was bathed in light,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuMjSlQPcD
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5hPMENWHq
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXDQ80HQem
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJz2fhBODN
With fervor rich, she asked the man,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyECBQyue3v
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEL488ME4ER
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5y6Ughyd1V
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0RKXJMBMT
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjR3iqthJKF
A whisper deep within her called,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAniGmXxToC
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvBxpAm38Y
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZHxY61iud
In libraries and grand displays,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4n6XiCLzOy
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HHpbDAUX2
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxU3RhepV0
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JPoxfBk24
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLq7ksWM14
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLCCrX1fSP
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxBDbyXP5o
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sf82dM5SD
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9ZORedsdd
She saw his hands, the ink still there,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19b6KvbdEJ
And when he left, too lost in thought,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbssUJr0Ks4
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBZ4kdXNUg
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RVrBEeKzR
Then slowly turned the cover wide,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCj2heSxgc
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyHytwIvQe
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MIkmFRyfw
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULx2reCwxP
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSUWiWrea9
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhFOrIs6u4
A mystery solved, a question met,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9nAPXtcmC
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMy94P0Lfj
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2HjIjoSOzJ
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FVP8QSZ2U
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OBcUcrrkV
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8adGlO2xMU
“I never meant for you to see,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYEqEL8x33
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBUskaGH8m
Her heart now whispered his dear name,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXj42Kfa1o
The search was done, the artist known,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6MhH2yHXH
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjruwGFEKyH
He’d painted her inside his heart,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOfiXJDWjn
And now at last, her tale complete,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPFm5U5zGM
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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