Upon the cobbled, winding street,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcivb6H2Nfw
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlZEBEfz63
A girl named Lila walked alone,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeto1roUdP
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINjsxXlE6w
Until a window called to thee,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEd6RFAu2PF
A shop of relics, old and grand,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSrRS8sGyv
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMN4eArW3fT
A painted frame—her soul deceived,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarIJ53kax9
For staring back with lifelike grace,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwas2xRpi5f
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLsYpWo6br
The painted girl was bathed in light,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPn2vwuRW7q
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1pwii8Rcc
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFPnnoey9d
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWFTE7YD7m
With fervor rich, she asked the man,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2brdiHUsO
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91qZEQmjmw
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjepGNYEgBP
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eCqOIfWad
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ycfuXwGzs
A whisper deep within her called,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrqBI0Bc2u
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTT2wyvmSy
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCw7i9YciiS
In libraries and grand displays,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnRiD94DqQ
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ezs19ftjd
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTCxy841qz
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTwSU9gKky
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuZXWpKR1v
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sfeMwpY1Y
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuD8uyqKeun
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1g1au2Fly5
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIb5qRNXAIb
She saw his hands, the ink still there,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9JeATVCO4
And when he left, too lost in thought,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡirlqsoEDaW
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9iIGIbJFy
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsDlwxROqX
Then slowly turned the cover wide,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlzQwaCNABt
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdarhupVko
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtfZIywtMqs
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1WGRXeqUA
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzwDu8Itye
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5sP85GQsN
A mystery solved, a question met,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12luA6rskh
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtExaQpxCJ
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrW1HssgpO5
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZcTNHtSL3
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJXBMKnTXf
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXModC6mDJ5
“I never meant for you to see,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQj26RTidN
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPp7eqmUhSJ
Her heart now whispered his dear name,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8G4c6NNSI
The search was done, the artist known,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOeUc1XnLZy
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEv0WEC8DL
He’d painted her inside his heart,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmYN0IlrMi
And now at last, her tale complete,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5h34dQ4qT
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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