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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