Upon the cobbled, winding street,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2Uw877ZUK
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJtfEER5EX
A girl named Lila walked alone,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDa8eZDrfKP
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtlQp1W9sS
Until a window called to thee,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzx833ZzNSI
A shop of relics, old and grand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmY5kVPsiLN
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAEEx1HW0l
A painted frame—her soul deceived,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBueZ5sics
For staring back with lifelike grace,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxSdZ82Ak7F
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPbGta0z2P
The painted girl was bathed in light,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2UJwp4B6A
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5QJutOAZD
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIwzwH2uzS
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOHuluxrLp
With fervor rich, she asked the man,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIoqDs15zr
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnNRizLlDN
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmsyg1GxyY1
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡirXZbWPWuX
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIwW8qEKi4
A whisper deep within her called,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSWMjr4HB0
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmMvZzwSnj
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNNldX5Sow
In libraries and grand displays,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbCoZOclxe
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0nGMpbRpu
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡve2oqFo1bQ
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBerEMSXDr0
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUz3wi1BcUP
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFD2nu1zhfA
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLTIsAkwT7
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVMUzVXvSg
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvA18DSuzb
She saw his hands, the ink still there,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPiCgSNOkG
And when he left, too lost in thought,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlmwwni0zO
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV26gtRhdOr
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0v5PwgopTS
Then slowly turned the cover wide,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjefCTZdEra
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxlUk901kic
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFEaHV0l4L
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwObrXh1iw
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaANCZiM4A
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXDCPIuQn4
A mystery solved, a question met,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GZexVXvK3
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeonbGdMZLl
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECr5ztXbie
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU68iJaqnWK
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaR3t1LiS8
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGp0lt2TLhX
“I never meant for you to see,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyk0KbYQLP
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVdQkEAcaE
Her heart now whispered his dear name,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83aCnTlwxR
The search was done, the artist known,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡla5PhkRh1k
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8OHeh5xvi
He’d painted her inside his heart,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnLT7pHw1m
And now at last, her tale complete,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOkVYltLLK
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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