Upon the cobbled, winding street,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXAyvMQkCA
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgBPw972PG
A girl named Lila walked alone,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnqT42NAvL
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpjkNdwVxi
Until a window called to thee,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPhnZJhJXq
A shop of relics, old and grand,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBURDjoBlJk
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqjvyIjZvd
A painted frame—her soul deceived,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrq6ZNq9Yya
For staring back with lifelike grace,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡub3r2L2RFO
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHALhMVtw0Q
The painted girl was bathed in light,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCYpQpCUkO
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tg3wkNJy5
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQatVavJstq
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pjdb29Tw8
With fervor rich, she asked the man,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMHsomx2R8
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnLuNgJGEq
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcxZxBV2RD
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgFPrsIr2r
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNfKKdjjNi
A whisper deep within her called,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztMGqXRivu
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡev7ddRpWF4
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKrbGkvXQB
In libraries and grand displays,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCFCkDbVHJ
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09CehEW6L3
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWydVDAdU9
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukLASMC49N
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvw1A90hDj
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpCJemFqNT
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtp0XHyHXfB
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1KIrOgkWr
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfI0K3U724P
She saw his hands, the ink still there,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrzUklayRO
And when he left, too lost in thought,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmW6aYPRmme
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bXncUioj0
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1E1G3vFq4f
Then slowly turned the cover wide,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZRw3h8PVQ
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOVcKl5AE7
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡID9XO7sM6s
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEYDcym0qR
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXJl9M7IWX
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotwAiLny5h
A mystery solved, a question met,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1IsDTq6gF
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7jG9DGHCd
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEVdqZ0HNGV
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXve5riACT
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkG2BzLMz2
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiB9ietebLW
“I never meant for you to see,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2895jDvxa
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrut40FRkIJ
Her heart now whispered his dear name,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3ThHbiVv4
The search was done, the artist known,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxjp3UtqQh
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQdqEnSKAJ
He’d painted her inside his heart,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4OKquAl7h
And now at last, her tale complete,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMlE3MwAk8
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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