Upon the cobbled, winding street,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkuTmIJ0oM
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBho3Nk3Ei
A girl named Lila walked alone,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xAeatXIx6
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjhjbuKsv3
Until a window called to thee,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmoQ3aoB8y
A shop of relics, old and grand,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnpVH4vi6v
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlO2H8LMZc
A painted frame—her soul deceived,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsUqufE3M8
For staring back with lifelike grace,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8teTLSHUe
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAIHhKVc3D
The painted girl was bathed in light,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSj8vXzU1Z
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnvi6E8mk41
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCkAhJ8gKX
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOCZKI0Mqi
With fervor rich, she asked the man,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKl3C1ko0Bk
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBE5aLaubEY
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqCAdtJvxF
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMZCBaiB8H
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwC2hCCma8w
A whisper deep within her called,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FRYR6iK11
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVu1H5xSyK3
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYlqnBpItz
In libraries and grand displays,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBicN3DpZu
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX35inpuV6R
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0iG9TS6g9
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJZNVDuZ7O
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvALMqGVko
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fzYRvHHe5
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoqiqrGPed
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDi2yfJmbRS
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCts2j1jHmD
She saw his hands, the ink still there,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsma2YYSZp
And when he left, too lost in thought,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDMHLGnx3P
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlNyeKV4sT
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bTfgM73Wu
Then slowly turned the cover wide,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthRgdKTvhx
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQH7abIqDkN
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbD3239QT8
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5db9qcqy8
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ywRKzaJZU
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhh5nE3YJw
A mystery solved, a question met,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWBBFbrlky
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLB1QtYW1j
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKJgjYxi8V
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurxfVAzrEy
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvfQmUXZ0v
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRE41MMLF6
“I never meant for you to see,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AI0tr8CRo
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35YJPdb314
Her heart now whispered his dear name,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyFSCMvTxy
The search was done, the artist known,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9EPU2sofS
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNojRbDFv3C
He’d painted her inside his heart,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwCOIUVseD
And now at last, her tale complete,235Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsdAqxOaZX
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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