Upon the cobbled, winding street,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQxwlYrTUx
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3ld5IBj3o
A girl named Lila walked alone,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5LGVGXm26
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxBMKVxPL0
Until a window called to thee,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRePDQPlXC
A shop of relics, old and grand,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLWcJfFHFN
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYPTMUImMD
A painted frame—her soul deceived,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7kWEVUBnc
For staring back with lifelike grace,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8y6CbUmx27
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeECL3UBPhF
The painted girl was bathed in light,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAuSNcCDuR
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYRiWRrRXR
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrccIEZoRro
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI6gwyHzLmB
With fervor rich, she asked the man,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHlyBxHu5y
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1quBtWtf4a
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCtOjgXA7V
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBahQ5uhEh
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1Hi9GJnbG
A whisper deep within her called,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxkLCTHr7i
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsR32Mjzdu
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1weRzI2KrG
In libraries and grand displays,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPyiuiQvzA
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsVXfRHAxI
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡly0OXrjyjT
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIHU9lUbAm
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNjQPuCoh0
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3Lu4XM8kd
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQApRGvO6gF
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVnPLm5kpY
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHuljgt86Io
She saw his hands, the ink still there,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpNBEpkcEq
And when he left, too lost in thought,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPpzrQFi0j1
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4aKdLfybz
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIjsA3UtDY
Then slowly turned the cover wide,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypGYD2NGJc
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDa3pPldZNJ
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhQKzWLGIC
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRpKZ2AzeL
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlyvT91jzf
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4q4Efre117
A mystery solved, a question met,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PDPQbbnNU
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9e4qjqR2v
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡao3wb68nt2
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9y9js7igIH
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Tq6N1Q2qq
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVJpVqjxaz
“I never meant for you to see,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TF2fkWtFq
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2t4PZjHVfe
Her heart now whispered his dear name,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYzzAVRdfq
The search was done, the artist known,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWxtEdBH9K
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpXRYrUt2k
He’d painted her inside his heart,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlUUv41brk
And now at last, her tale complete,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq61ppHxXLN
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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