Upon the cobbled, winding street,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroIAlKCVoN
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOzTYtT1Pl
A girl named Lila walked alone,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLAWZC2Fga
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55voPHZwD8
Until a window called to thee,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBSGzuKN1V
A shop of relics, old and grand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5i0JQOcmE
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnbCPkucIG
A painted frame—her soul deceived,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jY6rtWnIT
For staring back with lifelike grace,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQSDKKm0jl
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5q8jIGLOK
The painted girl was bathed in light,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjlzuMe44S
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmZgn6QYiM
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlx4S9VY8Q
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmPXwMvqbq
With fervor rich, she asked the man,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaa6d7jihnx
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4bnKOrs9q
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmj5tvM8M4u
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4mBVQaFP5
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCy6QjLpxB
A whisper deep within her called,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpTxgPRw46
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdXS1Gx5G6
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9c7JXFEmKt
In libraries and grand displays,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIAheyr2GI
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80jcvaHxK9
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0F2RbBTPi
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZDw09EZtt
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Sbbg1zllm
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQNcHC07BP
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2zB3znq9T
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIAzfuI7Lw
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIarV9C7N5h
She saw his hands, the ink still there,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58K8lrVaXl
And when he left, too lost in thought,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡju6V5k2TRj
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbm3bMloWmA
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9e80JbIsGv
Then slowly turned the cover wide,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07KHEgb2yY
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4eNk59zDn
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ619S0RrKdF
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwk78RklqV
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpkq0kJDbo
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20rt6zUekB
A mystery solved, a question met,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNRT9zqbKG
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJserKQqOS
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8MMeC2JKe
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeIL4Lhv8y
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvwtG75dt3
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13R86W2xOP
“I never meant for you to see,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJ2y7q9sZ5
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySMvrlxW4p
Her heart now whispered his dear name,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GJTB8te6s
The search was done, the artist known,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKnR0xv0oy
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPZHTTHiCO
He’d painted her inside his heart,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDPzBQYTMT
And now at last, her tale complete,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKryZdbE9o1
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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