Upon the cobbled, winding street,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwRmtEJcWu
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPT7i7O8FlY
A girl named Lila walked alone,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTh4dTPOxof
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NM1LwUeGs
Until a window called to thee,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvhAcAcrMn
A shop of relics, old and grand,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxalaM0iJaz
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhtpMX3ItS
A painted frame—her soul deceived,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMypPncKqOe
For staring back with lifelike grace,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG2EM8OxRFx
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlnjAWN4Tf
The painted girl was bathed in light,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LtVDKET0i
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKooQDvN6Cj
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytZYmwgc3h
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYkUiLeDcL
With fervor rich, she asked the man,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPLluKltLu
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡafvwr9PXJa
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTkfneeR1P
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Ma4fVmZy1
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIbK3sJS6H
A whisper deep within her called,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJSKpvB5Wd
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpx1YR6I43C
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGJuXdcyEx
In libraries and grand displays,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOS11K5uJo
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAQqkn22Zu
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMy163ukgrQ
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgc9EMllbRR
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMzR9zAULk
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpp3jrGWRh6
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YHP3AEhNC
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQwTulNX2E
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pg2sw04xM
She saw his hands, the ink still there,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLKIgj1BMn
And when he left, too lost in thought,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDDLJYbcs8
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi33rxWtHCA
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtn6W6WStI
Then slowly turned the cover wide,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GwW56XJ8v
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEmETkHLEt
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1loA6c8aCu
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnCjMcL2Pd
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdH77HJQt8
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAm2gCk6Zjg
A mystery solved, a question met,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKxdTyye0V
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfgcO2t8UE
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNM1k3Z1eD
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gNgUPaJ7A
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5QNaN7Kwz
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnPA338KWj
“I never meant for you to see,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGh1C6rH7M
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP98QH1Ryhz
Her heart now whispered his dear name,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnjxB5uWF4
The search was done, the artist known,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpVfPYmhne
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlePyBm9MX6
He’d painted her inside his heart,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4D7VZZEheD
And now at last, her tale complete,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtLcTboLDL
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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