Upon the cobbled, winding street,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFAdiFNgJo
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQRKEk5Rc2
A girl named Lila walked alone,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCm9hGYDNW
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLbOCvqfo6
Until a window called to thee,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2amJaIeYP
A shop of relics, old and grand,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHtMxakVF2
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73JljOwcBf
A painted frame—her soul deceived,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIfXstkDzz
For staring back with lifelike grace,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6TQsFzdzG
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFBkAWSQ92
The painted girl was bathed in light,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwJMXjNGyF
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOARebjBZ6
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2fasDLKQl
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdS0nMq3q8w
With fervor rich, she asked the man,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92W6KXlfnX
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kyuwZV7Iv
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2pvdClXT8
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQJCPpWTz4
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdgxvNuxYY
A whisper deep within her called,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8qXsYQtLR
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mOSEeFA4g
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFVUm4QpbP
In libraries and grand displays,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzvgz3eNZA
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbB1AK4zZ5r
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6TVTnN74U
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRKytrnnhXt
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbb4ASjoYIq
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6C8SHW8OW
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYb6RzuaOYF
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GDjitnBHL
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOivE9r6Jfv
She saw his hands, the ink still there,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODWRu2HurD
And when he left, too lost in thought,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSfMGZLhck
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERmpeXKp7v
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡif3If3DQsR
Then slowly turned the cover wide,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyuJYDp3tb
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvPSRN0cOs
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsvFVjGyGY
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshBrGbdZwy
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9mbYDWuGj
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKwtJKGhEW
A mystery solved, a question met,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDvfr6W8Co
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dLKaszUyb
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAXu3e4OoI
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrh8PA9OKS
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLzVEuGhWm
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthXpcJFBgY
“I never meant for you to see,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDiA5m2o25
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokiPupSZUG
Her heart now whispered his dear name,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vm1RgIrYN
The search was done, the artist known,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iBuZwsfKO
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXtqgUc87O
He’d painted her inside his heart,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GZWwqxmoY
And now at last, her tale complete,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpv1Q6pdyMg
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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