Upon the cobbled, winding street,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jfz1Y7yXh
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6fgFv1j1o
A girl named Lila walked alone,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03UtyKKDJP
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42GEPVMuch
Until a window called to thee,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3d1mELC4Qz
A shop of relics, old and grand,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAezG7zDDd
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRwCIVabWO
A painted frame—her soul deceived,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJpaRzmzlL
For staring back with lifelike grace,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfQvRpFx6y
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMz6BLiV3S6
The painted girl was bathed in light,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRQRcLqOkg
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7IzDYt7LH
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qhrm0Jdqj
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePbq6vRjUm
With fervor rich, she asked the man,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ilqnz6lqO
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92HnIXlGLB
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDOuYbJ311
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvlnO41ap0
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDsUeyNfvL
A whisper deep within her called,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtrQ4SChLz
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpevXyJLgO
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6LQyK5EyV
In libraries and grand displays,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TXAB9LGnj
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmGe5bGIRG
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pWSjLLvmK
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgut9ryIyDE
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2qJrtsIxr
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCDrzF5ZSM
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswdUQwOoUR
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnfyqXEyf8
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYQjKnEJiV
She saw his hands, the ink still there,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymOmL1bsfE
And when he left, too lost in thought,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEbqT8st8T
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjL7Q4eybU
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu3Pjn3LmWv
Then slowly turned the cover wide,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjbTZwmvzz
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXMA2APsaM
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2fT6ZWWZ6
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJlaAx85Kc
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Axkq9L8kq
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEjqGV9FiG
A mystery solved, a question met,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIW2IbKMZJ
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWxKVt9YB3
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjQIHoZIMM
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtn9Gk0SjIV
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcjSfKzQJy
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlioN4kMAe
“I never meant for you to see,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASlckI10Q0
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHt5OzqmjRH
Her heart now whispered his dear name,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34FGEplvQX
The search was done, the artist known,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZFdgyRveS
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSG1x5ggtwu
He’d painted her inside his heart,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkU9RrH069
And now at last, her tale complete,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlJEviPKU8
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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