Upon the cobbled, winding street,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyVk8puA4s
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhV6uqTkU78
A girl named Lila walked alone,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxl5pdZ51K
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwe6t4PN4gF
Until a window called to thee,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2oCccbxs9
A shop of relics, old and grand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpRewVAMNy
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppGRrGki35
A painted frame—her soul deceived,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr49hiqmpTa
For staring back with lifelike grace,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOwkOOYgav
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdYAWYyCI3
The painted girl was bathed in light,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKJwUTyZ9l
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3ldps3urO
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveNuk1vrIG
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczoYsSpdDW
With fervor rich, she asked the man,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSs2F95Oxrs
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq15xilR98i
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7HraPxH6L
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXVVkXwjCC
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GeW2MoyoX
A whisper deep within her called,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Sr18un4dj
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEfJRQ6ZfF
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTg8pmvSyX
In libraries and grand displays,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrgcohWnRD
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgX3Sty7RlY
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx0ZXGN0oyk
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dLVxt3Qzc
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWPKj24uT8
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEGIzs9Wei
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZMrAi3pmS
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXRuGO6gyJ
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Qkrbg1zxp
She saw his hands, the ink still there,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5eGJLpffK1
And when he left, too lost in thought,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvV9jujrd0
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoniYLwcDJ
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2A20f7cOrb
Then slowly turned the cover wide,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlV6H396xyB
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgnFfYKIbO
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4Zshgh5pp
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPgFbqXqFf
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGi995kX5L
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTn6HSz7Vg
A mystery solved, a question met,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtb7KzlwgqE
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzgtjZzz9m
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb653PRA32W
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHebuiTMDO
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03zShP1ETP
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVstDpjZjD4
“I never meant for you to see,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizXvamRnfs
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoLeVBfLCE
Her heart now whispered his dear name,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzVGme8V7Y
The search was done, the artist known,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjV8niCRt5d
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dBbN07Eyj
He’d painted her inside his heart,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpItAQvnV3
And now at last, her tale complete,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnd2bmWZCs
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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