Upon the cobbled, winding street,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgiavqLYXEn
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCFzFwC5ox
A girl named Lila walked alone,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEBmtJhrMT
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2z0Konk3a2
Until a window called to thee,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdyPqfcmHD
A shop of relics, old and grand,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmb73Cdttev
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xSb0twsSc
A painted frame—her soul deceived,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXplMFoIgE
For staring back with lifelike grace,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmaxtzI9Ps
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnF7v2xRPq7
The painted girl was bathed in light,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVZeWTJEGz
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMhcP63nhD
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoibSyHp2F
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsKEfoBBWE
With fervor rich, she asked the man,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2VgKzaSYz
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtPzr9bdbr
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSm3JRnf0bE
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiZ6u9v2o3
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8iqOli5bp
A whisper deep within her called,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2FIyMvCdsB
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlnoU5aeNs
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUuS7x9RQo
In libraries and grand displays,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡac3jRkTlDh
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIcczuN9wb
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpZLEdNsRq
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYs9A982xJ
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWyKxNK5i9
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGJEUTfmlZ
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jGpGoSyd7
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMY3LTHx7C
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2adO0P9AD
She saw his hands, the ink still there,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrocMeOi2X
And when he left, too lost in thought,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf04hL2XGO4
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9eIvjodxG
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyIN7oNigw
Then slowly turned the cover wide,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmsqkaECMg4
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSARx4MsGn
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0UvHwws7R
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tHy2nFfij
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gXd7ghpGi
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJQMFITNFU
A mystery solved, a question met,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnggCnraHhl
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfI9I0EfGFp
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4L07McwbpH
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LO5U7FsKh
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7yUhgXZTB
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoW3EVUjgf
“I never meant for you to see,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoosKMzAYqW
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3S71QmUb9Y
Her heart now whispered his dear name,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSJjyBjPTZ
The search was done, the artist known,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhALAb5PtO
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFAdRO1UZt
He’d painted her inside his heart,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRBR6e5Otz
And now at last, her tale complete,240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXU9o4qOhB
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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