Upon the cobbled, winding street,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9PiZtKjgF
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8nfrIa2KD
A girl named Lila walked alone,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFUiU2Cikd
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWZ8ti62vc
Until a window called to thee,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rewXtTkOX
A shop of relics, old and grand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypdT7SY70k
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5KwWMA8rU
A painted frame—her soul deceived,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjA9LGbp93L
For staring back with lifelike grace,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6QsaMioK2n
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2F5niZx6N
The painted girl was bathed in light,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcWsrHF9K3
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcT2syHisM
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczZ65N958A
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgFoUgdm2D
With fervor rich, she asked the man,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqdcnLh1Gy
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjuWlUc2a2
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7f39T8EG0
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfW5cnFAD9
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZrjwmaiA8
A whisper deep within her called,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2SMnK7ZJv0
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54GQBeRLkJ
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdYdm0dzPr
In libraries and grand displays,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuzWMT0Ktr
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtH4e1hVLT1
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PdVc3zmTg
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPjgnH4otk
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOMNGA2AyI
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJS4mG4bb75
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNn8G4ZMjT
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMGS8KzgJi
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHM6qL5Pgh
She saw his hands, the ink still there,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNV7HknlrYX
And when he left, too lost in thought,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGX2jSFcSo1
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBvQpGQ2Cp
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYCXyUe32y
Then slowly turned the cover wide,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9A6RavcRw
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6wJMfmEc9
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oXibp5NZM
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvx71flQoq7
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxN1VqjnWe
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2SPGavd15S
A mystery solved, a question met,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ly86AJ8Rg
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWBUex8zCL
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZI2EoFqF7
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHizYEPpOC
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYTs6TT68C
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZK3NBgzke
“I never meant for you to see,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieQezGCtmK
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lIsTT4TE8
Her heart now whispered his dear name,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzThKwLbn92
The search was done, the artist known,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsTaKK3O6h
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmxNX0MhiF
He’d painted her inside his heart,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEuFh49ebE
And now at last, her tale complete,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI29EZRcRFq
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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